EMPLOYMENT OF SOLDIERS
A LABOUR COMPLAINT. (Special to Times.) WELLINGTON, Friday. One of the statements made by the Labour deputation that interviewed Sir James Allen and other Ministers to-day was that employers were taking advantage of returned soldiers by counting pensions as part of civilian pay. The employers, one speaker declared, made, a practice of telling the pensioned soldier that they would "make up" Ids pension to the amount of the wage prevailing in the industry. Sir James Allen said he hoped that if members of the deputation or anybody else knew of such cases, thoy would let him know at once. A general charge could not be proved or disproved. He would like to have names and exact details, in order that he might take whatever action was necessary to protect the interests of returned soldiers. It was obvious that some of the returned men, owing to partial disablement, were unable to earn full wages. Hut the duly of the employer was to pay for the service actually rendered without taking pension into account at all. This should be clearly understood.
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Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13815, 20 July 1918, Page 9
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