SOLDIERS’ PAY
SIXPENCE MORE GRANTED The Chancellor’s announcement of an increase of 6d a day in the pay of men in the forces is generally welcomed, states the Manchester Guardian. It will cost about £9,000,000 a year for every million men, so that, in the present swollen state of our forces the total is very considerable. It still leaves the man in the forces woefully underpaid. But that only conforms with tradition. With half a crown a day the British soldier is better paid than the soldiers of other European countries. The extra sixpence granted to him is in recognition of the burden of high prices which falls on soldier and civilian alike. It does not touch the inequality, glaringly evident in this war as in the last, between the military and the civilian war worker. The family of the one is forced into a life of hardship, the family of the other lives comfortably on industrial wages. The injustice is (widely recognised,, but redress is difficult and costly and those of us who remain in civil life are too selfish to press for it.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21243, 14 October 1940, Page 10
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185SOLDIERS’ PAY Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21243, 14 October 1940, Page 10
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