COMPASSIONATE ALLOWANCES
Trooper, in Thursday's Star, reveals a state of affairs that all taxpayers in this Dominion should take cognisance of. The policy which the late Right Hon. M. J. Savage endorsed was the cause of the worker and the underdog! Surely Labour (as it now rules) is forsaking its plank. It would appear so, when compassionate grants for well-to-do people are the order of the day. When one realises the enormous sacrifices of our overseas forces and the mere pittance allotted to their bereaved wives and mothers (and in many cases to themselves, when crippled and disabled), it makes one naturally conclude that there still remains in the realms of Governmental administration a superiority complex—not to the advantage of the rank and file, who bleed and die that we may live! Do not the soldiers, sailors and airmen's widows* (and mothers) carry just as heavy a burden of sorrow all through life as an M.P.'s widow or any other, with less in her purse? In death all are equal. UNDERDOG.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 176, 28 July 1942, Page 4
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171COMPASSIONATE ALLOWANCES Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 176, 28 July 1942, Page 4
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