We regret to see in the Ex-Service Man of Saturday
last, July 17th, a paper conducted with freedom and independence, some very serious complaints in regard to the policy alleged to be adopted by certain Trades Unions towards the ex-Service man.
"The ex.Service man has obtained further evidence that trades unions do play the brutal game of freezing ex-Service men out of their workshops. In most cases it is even worse than that. They will not allow the poor devils a chance even to get between the wind and their nobility. What can we do to counter actions so inhuman ? At present they have us hip and thigh. Dr. Macnamara, with all the will in the world, is powerless, alone, against vast organisations wielding power which seems to be as autocratic as that once attributed to the Czars. If we had a Government with a sense of honour, even a sense of decency, it would take steps to put a speedy end to the tyrannical rule of trade union autocrats who decree that men who were fighting during the years that others learned their trades and made good shall not now have a chance to make good now that the country is at any rate safe to live in. It makes the blood run hot to listen to the stories of cold-blooded indifference to the claims of men to whom, of all people, the country should insist that work and consideration should be given. We in this office can testify that there are many who are at the door of beggary because of this brutal treatment."
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