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THOSE SEPARATION ALLOWANCES

THE DEMAND FOR RETROSPECTION

SIR JAMES ALLEN WANTS INFORMATION The demand of retrospechve separation allowances in full was placed before Sir James Allen mid other members of. the Government again £,™mf hv > ese»ntivo of the BeS* *«■?* The argumiuifc, for this concession to the dependants of the. men who wont to tho front in the early stages of the war, when tho allowances wore small, were stated ■by the speakers on/lines that are now familiar. '

Sir James* Allen said that lie had asked the association to supply him with it statement showing just what allowances it wished to have made retrospective. He .wanted to know clearly what tho demands of the association were. He had boon given to? understand that the association wanted all allowances to bo modo retrospective and that the demands did not stop there. It had been suggested that the increased rates of pay for officers should also bo made Hr. D. J. B. Seymour, general secretary of tho association, said tho returned soldiers wanted the principle of j-olto-Bpectioa fully adopted iu respect of allowfinces. It iviia prepared to accept certain limitations without abandoning tho principle. A deduction might bo nrndo . from the retrospectivo payment in eases wliero the increase had been due to the inso In the cost of living. Sir James Allen: "Will you let mo know deanltoly what allowances and payments you. think should be ninde retrospective, so that I may see what my bill is? 1 liavo not yet cettled the amount of Iho ' gratuities and I want to know just where I stand." He hod already allowed retrospection in the caso of the wife's allowance to the dato of embarkation, and be was prepared to go back to tho date of entering camp if the association in collaboration with the Defence Department could evolve a, fair scheino. Ho would say frankly that he had not intended in the early stages of the war Unit married men with four, fivo and six children should enlist. As soon as he found that such men were enlisting, ho stopped it. Tho Government and the country 'had not expected men with largo families to e.ahst in the early stuges of the war, and when such men offered themselves, knowing the conditions, it Jiad been a reasonable assumption that they were able to ma-ke provision for their dependants. Tho reason why allowances had not been increased in the first years of tho war had been that he did not wish to encourage men with several children dependant upon them to eniist at a time when plenty of men without such obligations were available. He wished that the Military Service Act had operated 60oner than had been the caso. - What was the attitude of the association regarding the relation between' separation allowances and gratuities? Dr. Boxer: Retrospective allowances bofore gratuities. Sir James Allen: And then you would ask for the gratuities ' afterwards. I think we had better 'deal with them together, it you don't mind. That is tho best policy for the Government.

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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 264, 4 August 1919, Page 3

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THOSE SEPARATION ALLOWANCES Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 264, 4 August 1919, Page 3

THOSE SEPARATION ALLOWANCES Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 264, 4 August 1919, Page 3

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