HAIG SPEAKS OUT.
"MUDDLE AND -MEANNESS." LONDON, July 1. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Ilaig, giving evidence before tho Sclo:t Committee on Pensions, startled the members by hotly denouncing official delays, muddling, and meanness. He found the conditions at tlio end of 191& appalling. The necessity for pensioning officers had been discussed for tlueo yea re, but nothing had been finalised. _ Tho present state of affairs was positively inhuman. For example, a disabled married officer with 23 years' service was expected to subsist on os a day. Hundreds of men were suffering from gassing, shell-shock, neurasthenia, or tuberculosis, and they ought to roceive £2 a week. Sir Douglas Haig commented sharply on the trade unions objecting to _ tho employment of Govcrnmcnt-traired men in the principal industries. Ho suggested the appev'ntment of a single authority to co-ordinate departmental work relating to pensions and military employment.
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16584, 25 July 1919, Page 7
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