Fay of Australian Soldiers
“The common soldier is bearing on his shoulders the destiny of Australia, but the national ‘reward’ is to apportion him the poorest pay among all classes directly employed in the war effort,” states a leading article in' “Reveille,” the official journal of the New South Wales Returned Soldiers’ League. “There are relatively few among our stay-at-homes, in positions from the highest to the lowest, who Would willingly exchange their lot for that of the common soldier who is defending our frontiers.” The writer of the article alleges that many Australian civilians have “manoeuvred” themselves into positions in essential industries to evade mobilisation. “If we had a tribunal of front-line war veterans,” he adds, “to appraise what a soldier is worth, in comparison with what he is getting, the soldier would come into his just due."
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23914, 5 April 1943, Page 4
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