Show starvation allowances the allowance given the dependents of americas fighting fightlin g men amount to a national disgrace at a time when we are spending billions of dollars to fight the war and when there is much wanton waste the government gives the depend ent mothers children and wives of soldiers and sailors sums ranging from 15 to 50 per month each and 20 of a 50 allowance comes out of the 50 a month paid a private soldier contrast this with the generous treatment accorded labor its wages are at all time highs it has been promptly given almost every wags increase it has demanded the war labor board has allowed major labor groups recent wage increases on the grounds that they were necessary to Pomp compensate for increases increases in in the cost of living and while that thai goes on the dependents of men who are drafted into service receive receive pen which are not enough to keep body and soul together A considerable percentage of those dependents because of health and age are unable to work the cost of adequate pensions to those dependents w would never be noticed in the overall cost of tle the war adequate pensions would do a lot to raise the morale among the fighting men than all the flag rais ing speeches ever made what is a soldier to think when he hears of workers receiving 50 to a week in war industry at a time when government aid his depend ants virtually condemns them to slow starvation or public charity |