EMPLOYMENT FOR RETURNED SOLDIERS.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2664, 8 January 1916, Page 7

EMPLOYMENT FOR RETURNED SOLDIERS.

: Sir, —It is very properly expected that tho Government and private employers should do all they can to provide employment for returned soldiers. One naturally looks to tho Government to set an example in this connection. And looks in vain. There aro plenty of jobs that returned soldiers might fill —on tho railways, and in fact in all • Departments—that are being held by young men who have not volunteered for the war, and have no intention of volunteering. .Why should there bo nny sympathy with the latter? Ir there is not Government sympathy with them, why are they retained? Wero they told to either enlist or retire from tho servico ail example would be set that would bo very useful. Those affected should also include men who married sinco the war commenced. If their wives suffer hardship through this they can hardly complain. _ Their husbands might have done their duty had they (tho wives) refused to marry them unless they enlisted. This, I am glad to be able to say, has been dono by a good many girls hero, in Australia, and ill the Old land. Then, again, why should the Government keep hero any longer tho men training our cadets, territorials, and recruits when there are many returned wounded well fitted {of die work, and. haviiiK & better; slaia*

to it, inasmuch as tliey have seen war under the latest conditions and . have "done their bit"? Thoro aro .local military men who havo not yet "been to this war, although it lias been in operation a year and a. half. Is it surprising that wounded men are asking if thoro is ail all-round square deal?—l am, etc., GABA TEPE.