REINSTATEMENT

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 144, 8 April 1940, Page 5

REINSTATEMENT

UPON COMPLETION OF WAR THERE WILL BE DIFFICULTY Fearing that the Government would have difficulty in returning the men, now engaged on active service overseas, back into their respective pesitions on the completion of the war, the Te Arolia branch of the Returned Soldiers' Association at its annual meeting decided to forward the following remit to the Dominion Conference of the Association, to bey sent on to the Government for earnest consideration:— "That the Government be asked to bring down at the earliest possible moment a scheme or schemes by which the men now serving over seas will be absorbed back into civil life immediately upon the com pletion of the war." In explaining the remit, the president, Mr N. G. McLcodj pointed out "that a position where employers would be unable to reinstate the men in their normal occupations was bound to occur. It was quite possible, continued Mr McLeod, that previous employers would be out of work. Admittedly, he said, the R.S.A. had promised to look after the interests of the men until tlicy came back, and it was true that the law demanded the rehabilitation of the men in their original positions, but what was to happen if the men, through the exigencies of the war, had been thrown out of work before they had enlisted, and their jobs were non-exist-ent? "If the men are assured beforehand of a re-entry into civil life, I am sure this factor would greatly affect the voluntary recruiting," added Mr McLcod. Land settlement or industrial development were suggested as avenues for overcoming the difficulty.— Te Aroha News.