The Alaska Daily Empire

However, when Germany obliged numerous Swiss waiters here to leave the country at the outbreak of the war, the Swiss authorities took similar action against German waiters in Switzerland. Further, the Swiss employers came to the conclusion that the Germans had underbid Swiss waiters so greatly that their competition was injurious to the country's native populace.

International Exchange
Two years ago arrangements were made for an international exchange, but the German interests concerned worked to impede a waiters' exodus from the Fatherland. One of these obstructions was a demand that for every German waiter going to Holland, six Dutch waiters were to be sent here.
Some of these workers abroad have been drifting to Italy and Spain, but the former country has shown strong resistance to their re-entry. Opposition to them also has been found in the Scandinavian countries and in the British overseas possessions. In one of the former German colonies the admission requirements have been tightened even recently.
Holland has been proving more and more of a magnet for German housemaids, as well. According to an unofficial estimate recently announced here, there are at least 100,000 of these "frauleins" now on Dutch soil, with 10,000 in Amsterdam alone. The number is so great, it is said, that many are finding difficulty in obtaining employment.