UNEMPLOYED EX-SERVICE MEN

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 37, 8 November 1920, Page 3

UNEMPLOYED EX-SERVICE MEN

APPEAL ON THEIE BEHALF. ' London, November 5, The Prince of AVales, in a speech at the Mansion House, when inaugurating Obligation Week, mndo an earnest appeal on behalf of unemployed ex-service men. He said he felt that lie was entitled to Bpeak on their behalf, bcause of his close association with the men when on active service, and because since tho, armlsWco he had had opportunities of seeing and talking to thousands of them,in various parts of the Empire Thoro were forty thousand disabled men and a quarter of a million fit men who were unemployed. He paid a tribute to the Dominions' energy in grappling with repatriation and resettlement problems. "It is up to the Old Country to see that wo do not fall behind," he said. "It is not charity, but everyone's solemn obligation to help my patSehb and weary comrades." . , Mr. Lloyd Goorgo wrote that while the cx-servico men were unemployed a blot • remained on the escutcheon of the na-tion.—AUS.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.