EX-SOLDIERS' DEMANDS
A LONDON DEMONSTRATION.
(AESTItAi.I/.N - NEW ZKALAND CABLE AS3OC:AT:ON.) (Received April 19, 3*p.m.) LONDON, 18th April.
A large number o.f ex-Service men, from all parts of the country, marched in procession along the Thames Embankment to Hyde Park, where speeches were made from twenty platforms. Resolutions were earned, calling on the Government to secure employment for all disabled men, provide adequate facilities for their trainine. grant equitable war gratuities, and increase the pre-war pen*sions.
Mr. Trevalyn, a member of the Executive of the Discharged Soldiers' Federation, threatened that the unions would picket Dover" and Folkestone, and stop touring parties going to see the graves of the fallen in France.: The'tourists, he said, were mainly profiteers who had' fattened on the blood of the soldiers, and on the hardships of their families.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 92, 19 April 1920, Page 8
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