RETURNED MEN.
"MAKING UP" HIS PENSION. Wellington, .July 17. One of the statements made by the Minister by the labor deputation that interviewed Sir James Allen and other Ministers to-day was that employers were taking advantage of returned soldiers by counting pensions as part of civilian pay. The employers, one speaker declared, made a practice of telling the pensioned soldier that they would ''make up" his pension to the amount of the wage prevailing in the industry. Sir James Allen said he hoped that if members of the deputation or anybody else knew of such cases, they would let him know at once. A general charge could not lie proved or disproved. He would like to have names and exact deiails. in order that he might take whatever action was necessary to protect the interests of returned soldiers It was obvious that some of the returned men, ■jwing to'partial disablement, were unable to earn full wages. But the duly of tec employer was to pay for the service actually rendered without taking pension into account at all. This should be clearlv understood.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1918, Page 6
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182RETURNED MEN. Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1918, Page 6
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