UNEQUAL TREATMENT

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 30, 3 August 1940, Page 10

UNEQUAL TREATMENT

A strong protest against • unequal treatment is made by "Time Our Turn Came." He states that the working man receives full consideration from the Government in wage increases, family allowances, and free milk rations. "Not only that, but his children are being educated" to a sense of lack of responsibility in every form, so that instead of being born with a good backbone to be self-reliant and independent (and the only way in which character can develop) they are now born with a huge wishbone, and every time they wish the Government sees that that wish comes true. In a sense they are taught to believe they have rich relations in Parliament who have unlimited wealth, who will see they get all they want both now and later on when they are no longer young, with not the slightest effort on their own part to play the game." The correspondent contrasts this with the treatment of contributors to the National Provident Fund. "I joined the fund, paying a weekly subscription of 2s lOd i until I became eligible at the age' of 60 years to commence drawing my own money back again. This is not a pension as the Government is pleased to call it; it is money I saved through the years to enable me to have a little to call upon when I reached the age of 60, just the same as drawing money out of the Post Office Sayings Bank. The Government now compels me to pay out of the £1 I.draw 2s in tax money, leaving me only 18s. lam forced to live on an income less than the working man as the cost of living has now risen 10 per cent, since May last. Thus for £1 I. only receive 13s worth of goods and the working.man has that made up to him in increased wages, family allowance, not forgetting the free milk ration for his children. I get no concessions whatever. lam nearly 70 years of age and have helped to make this country the lovely land it is,-but we are only shouldered out of the way as useless now. Will not some member of Parliament take up our cause and'see we get justice—as the Social Security recipients, are let off scot free; they do not pay any tax at all."