Jay: There was one Communist who was good to his maid. Whittaker Chambers described in Witness that when was spying for the GRU and he set his family up in Baltimore, to maintain his cover his wife had to hire a black maid. He insisted, as a Communist, that she sit at the table with them, an unheard of practice in the 1930s:

When Edith Murray first sat down at table with us — and we were the first white people who had ever asked her to sit at the same table with them — she showed fear, then embarrassment. I will not presume to say what her final feeling was. In any case, what we had to give her was something that belonged to her by right, but which had been taken from her, and which we were merely giving back. It was her human dignity. Thus, by insisting on acting as Communists must, we found ourselves unwittingly acting as Christians should. I submit that that cuts to the heart of one aspect of the Communist appeal.