"DEDMAN’S DOLE"
AUSTRALIAN EX-SERVICEMEN'S PROTEST INADEQUATE REHABILITATION ALLOWANCE (Rec. 11.50 a.m.) SYDNEY, April 29. Motions protesting against the living allowances granted to exservice trainees and calling upon the Government to establish war neurosis centres were carried unanimously at a public protest meeting of 2,500 exservicemen and women. Speakers demanded that the Federal Government should rectify anomalies in the Commonwealth reconstruction training scheme. The audience applauded Mr J. Hooke, chairman of the Returned Servicemen’s League Rehabilitation Committee, when be said it was iniquitious that any person should be expected to live on less than the basic wage. Though the basic wage was £5 Bs. the maximum . allowance to a married man under the scheme was £-1 16s. He referred to amounts allowed under the scheme as “ Dedman’s dole.”
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Evening Star, Issue 26087, 29 April 1947, Page 5
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127"DEDMAN’S DOLE" Evening Star, Issue 26087, 29 April 1947, Page 5
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