RETURNED MEN

New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24034, 4 August 1941, Page 3

RETURNED MEN

) ORGANISATION FORMED ) POST-WAR PROBLEMS Comprehensive plans for the rehabilitation of members of the forces and the ; establishment of a post-war order are I contained in a manifesto issued by the j Second Association, an organ- [ isation which has been incorporated. The manifesto states that the association will not clash with the aims or activities of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association and every support > will be accorded the older organisation. lis aims embrace not only satisfactory rehabilitation but provision for the general well-being of the men, especially [ the wounded and sick, the care of dependants and the assurance of an adequate place for returned servicemen in the civic and political life of the Dominion. The manifesto states that there is no existing organisation cap- , able of handling or solving the problems arising from tho return to civil life of many thousands of men at the end of the war. ! It is pointed out that although the third year of the war is approaching the only active steps known to the association consist of employment in a treeplanting scheme under the AYairoa River Control Bill. Criticism is also expressed that at the end of 28 days' leave granted on returning to the Dominion sick and wounded men unable to take up employment have no resources other than those offered by the Social Security Department. "The association maintains that ii is upon their return to civil life that the hardest tasks of all will face our men." says tho manifesto. "The tasks are abolishing existing selfish interests, removing obstacles to universal equality I of life' and living, overcoming many anomalies in social and political life and instituting in ther place means of f securing the ideals and conceptions of • true democracy." To assist it in its objects all next-of- > kin are entitled to become active mem- • berg of the association. I —. -