MILITARY TRAINING CAMPS.
The Secretary of the National Service League, Mr G. F. Shee, traverses the statement made by Mr Haldane at Rochdale recently that "whatever difficulties there might be m giving leave to men of the Territorial force to go to camp for 15 days, those difficulties were far less than would be occasioned by a system of compulsory service." Mr Shee said that the number of employees absent m any one year under a system of universal training would be well under 4 per cent., all probably under tho age of 22. The employer of labour who allows his hands to join the Territorial Force will often find the percentage absent on training to bo much larger than this, while the absentees would often be the most valuable men—mature workmen m responsible positions. Would anybody seriously maintain, asks Mr Shee', that the haphazard and unequal—and therefore inequitable—burden borne by tho patriotic employer, m war as well as m peace, under tho voluntary system is lighter than would be the case if all alike were under tho kind compulsion of an equal law?— London Standard.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7725, 19 February 1909, Page 1
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