THE SOLDIERS’ PAY.
One point that the covert disloyalists are always harping on to discourage recruiting is that the soldiers’ pay is insufficient and does not equal union wage, says the Christchurch News. We do not consider that any pay would be too great for the soldier or recompense for his services. At the same time we do not insult the men who volunteer by attributing to them the mercenary motives which these professed (stay at home) champions would infer actuate them. And these champions do not mention that our soldiers are even now the best paid, and the best pensioned and looked after in the world. Six shillings a day with everything, clothes, food, and lodging, tobacco, comforts, and little luxuries from the people, free transport and entertainment, free travel round the world, medical nursing, and hospital attention in ill-health and convalescence, and pensions for self and dependents, Is much better than the best union wage in New Zealand which they profess should be the standard for the soldier. It is not too good for the soldier, but it gives the He to his unwelcome and self-constituted champions. They evidently don’t know how to add up. They can only subtract —and abstract.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1506, 5 February 1916, Page 2
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203THE SOLDIERS’ PAY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1506, 5 February 1916, Page 2
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