RETURNED SOLDIERS.
♦ CAMPAIGN FOR PREFERENCE. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyiigkt.) (Received January Bth, 9.5 p.m.) MELBOURNE, January 8. Two hundred returned soldiers marched to the office of Mr W. A. Watt, Act-ing-Prime Minister, anci urged the displacement of all eligibles in the Public Service, replacing them with returned soldiers. Mr Watt agreed that returned men should have preference. All temporary or exempt classes of the Public Service who were eligible, he said, had been discharged, but eligible permanont officers could not bo discharged till Parliament altered the Public Service Act. Tho deputation visited other Ministers, and tho Chamber of Manufacturers, and- demanded preference for returned soldiers, declaring that unless the State Government and tho manufacturers fell into line, the soldiers would bo forced to declaro them, "black," and oven picket manufacturers' premises. In all cases promises were made to do all possible to assist returned men. Tho secretary of the Chamber of Manufacturers pointed out that manufacturers had declared for absolute preference for returned soldiers.
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16416, 9 January 1919, Page 7
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163RETURNED SOLDIERS. Press, Volume LV, Issue 16416, 9 January 1919, Page 7
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