JUSTICE FOR EX-SOLDIERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 February 1921, Page 9

JUSTICE FOR EX-SOLDIERS.

LORD HAIG’S APPEAL. ■Field-Marshal Lord Hai* opening the ex-service men’s winter carnival at Olympia, said: “The strength of ex-service men through being' united is very great indeed, but our real strength is the justice of our cause. We have behind us •the whole of the right-thinking people of the nation. What we haye got to do, therefore, is to stand together to make up our minds really what we want, and I feel sure that we shall achieve .our ends. We don’t want to fight anybody; we mean to co-operate. The solution of our problem is by co-operation and by working and co-operating with the Government, by co-operating with other friendly societies, by co-operating with county councils, with the employers of labor.' and with the trade unions. This new organisation is really a great guild, a guild for helping one another. I. feel that the essential thing is work. We don’t want charity; we want means to work, and a, certain number of us want training for that work. By subsidising us you can increase production, and not by giving subsidies to idle people. That is the secret of achieving success. I feel that with our great organisation, our great guild of ex-service men, our M arriors’ Guild, we have taken a great step forward toward solving the problem of the ex-service men.”