EQUALITY OF SACRIFICE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24685, 14 August 1941, Page 5

EQUALITY OF SACRIFICE

WAR-TIME OBLIGATIONS NEED FOR WORKABLE PLAN (0.C.) Aug; 1 Hie need, tor devising some means of ensuring :ihat men who did not go to the war wcause of physical uhfitness, retention .essential work, or through. conscientious objection made, sacrifices comparably with' those of the soldiers was emptaised br Mr W. J. Broadfoot (Opposition,- Waltomo) during the second rtadlnf.debatf ? on the Finance Bill theVHdtSar of\-Hepre- ! sentatives to-night He agreed that it was a difficult problem. Dirt claimed that it should be solved. "What a price the soldier has to pay for accepting his responsibilities!” Mr Broadfoot said. ' He quoted the cases of two men, .one single- who earned-£348 a year and was medically unfit, and one married with one child whose wage was £2BB a year. He said that .the married man .had passed .fit: and bis wife and child had £3 13s a week on which to live, but the single iiiian continued drawing his full wage ahdvlin nourish .of lysing his life.' : v "There is no equality ofsacriflc*between these two. mem” be .added. Unfit ihen. should f bear, part of th« i sacrifice ind it was up td the. Govern-; maht .to solve the probfe^.^.f