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Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1928, Page 1

EARL HAIG’S WISH. LONDON, May 30. Lady Haig at the closing session of the British Legion Conference at Scarborough yesterday showed her great sympathy with the unemployed ex-Scr-vice man. . A resolution was submitted claiming that the best tribute tlie Legion could pay to the memory of its late president. Earl Haig, would be in the substitution of work for relief, and urging the council to call on all area councils to submit schemes for absorbing unemployed ex-Scrvice .men in their areas, and also to set up a national movement urging all employers to give prior consideration to ex-Servicemen FOR THE MEN WHO FOUGHT. Lady Haig, who was received with gret cheering, spoke in support of the resolution. She said:

I am thankful for being given a chance of saving what I know my husband would wish as a memorial to him, He would not wish a statue. He would not wish anything except to help the men who fought and won the war. He always felt that money should only he spent on helping unemployed ox-Serviee men, and he would be proud* to see you working to-day. I know my husband would wish the adoption of a scheme of this kind as a memorial to him.

The resolution was carried, as was one instructing the executive to take steps to obtain ail amendment to the Unemployment Insurance Act, (1927) to give the British Legion direct representation on the Board of Referees, “as only by that means call {he interests of flx-Serviee men, be safeguarded,”-