PREFERENCE FOR SERVICE MEN.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 April 1931, Page 4

PREFERENCE FOR SERVICE MEN.

: ■ (To the Editor.) ■, : Sir,—With the shade of Anzac Day still on us, I would .give your .readers a- little food for thought and. ask them if some of. our public men, with their Is poppies in' their coats 'and loud “lest we forgets,” are as sincere as they seem. Last week a number of labourers were needed at the local factory, and a considerable number of men, married and single, some returned men with large families, applied for work. The contractors, however, at the instigation of someone, gave preference to a number of single young men, who had been working at the factory during the year. They had been drawing good wages and have first call on their old jobs when the season recommences,-and could easily have taken, advantage of the 4A unemployment scheme to help them over the winter. Some of them arc still drawing holiday pay from the company, while unemployed “diggers,” facing a spectre of want, watch them sail past in sedan ears and on high-powered motor-cycles to work. There is such general disgust at the. hypocrisy of it all that the chairman of the company should at least make some explanation. -4-1 am, etc., ! • - DISGUSTED.-’.., . Okaio. 1 . •. i