UNFAIRNESS TO RETURNED SOLDIERS.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16433, 29 January 1919, Page 10

UNFAIRNESS TO RETURNED SOLDIERS.

to TUB EDITOR OP "THI TXIESS." ! Sir, —"Whikt tho community lias i benefited by the services of those girls I who havo taken up office xvork, to replace those men who were sont to the I front, the time lias arrived when cori tain of those young Indies should in favour of the returned men able and "willing to undertake their work. It seems to mo that there are two distinct classes of lady clerks, a fortunate lew, whose parents are very comfortably situated financially, and who have no sort of excuse for retaining their positions at tho expense of a returned man, and the larger class who must dosomething for a living. It is a very easy matter for anjr able young woman* to obtain pleasant' and remunerative domestic work, and it would be no real hardship if, beginning with the comfortable class, the. employers dispensed with their services as the returneid men are availablo. It is most unfair, as happens in Christchnrch, and doubtless elsewjiore, to see the, daughter of a professional man retaining a billot that could bo properly filled by a returned soldier clerk. Why, our men havo hardly begun to return yofc, what will be the position when .30,000 of them get back? Unless they get their rights m this matter I foresee "some" trouble. Domestic life is not as it onco was, and good conditions, such as high wages and plenty of leave, obtain, a, choico r.ot availablo to the soldier.— Yours, etc.,

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