WAR'S AFTERMATH.
UNEMPLOYED OFFICERS.
MANY IN DIRE POVERTY.
LONDON. Nov. 24,
While over 90 per cent, of former soldiers and women war workers have returned to industrial occupations, there remain 20 000 former officers, including 12,000 in London, still unemployed. _ . , Tho King, Field-Marshal Lord Haig, Admiral Lord Beatty, and Mr Lloyd George, tho Premier, wrote to tho Lord Mayor, supporting a meeting held at the Mansion House, at which business men were urged to make a special effort to re-employ officers in clerical and other work, and thus give them a chance of proving that‘ their war service had largely increased their efficiency Sir Robert Home, Minister for Labour, said that many of them were reduced to dire poverty.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1704, 18 December 1919, Page 5
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