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New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9042, 13 May 1915, Page 2

“Great Britain is the richest country on earth,” states a manifesto lately issued by the British General Federation of Trade Unions, ■ “yet she largely depends upon chanfjr for the care and comfort of her discharged soldiers and sailors. The biggest effort yet made in this direction is totally inadequate; even the Prince of Wales’s fund, largo as it seems to the thoughtless, can only relieve a tithe of the distress which already exists. In this war the men at the top of the social scale have given their lives freely, and it would be ungenerous not to give credit for,’.and express appreciation of, their gallantry and self-sacrifice. The workman, too, at the call of his country ha*' left his job and his home and is doing his share, and doing it voluntarily, but there is a large percentage of the comfortable class whose mam contributions during this crisis have been in the nature of criticism and advice. It is these who mdst be made to contribute, and to contribute regularly and in proportion to means. If one-half of last year’s increased profits upon industry and commerce could bo exacted by means of a special income tax the totals of all the voluntary funds would he instantly eclipsed, and the basis of a practical fund provided. . It is necessary at once to withdraw from the realm of chance and chanty, the interests of the soldier and his dependents.”

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