Topic: Pay; the Queen's shilling
90.5 Per Cent. Privates Get Top $1.50 a Day
The Montreal Gazette, 16 February 1944
Ottawa, February 15.—(CP)—Defence Minister Ralston said tonight in the Commons that 90.5 per cent. of Canadian privates overseas were receiving the top pay of $1.50 a day as authorized under pay increases last year.
Privates are placed in categories, usually governed by their degree of traininjg, of $1.50, $1.40, and $1.30 a day.
Fifty per cent. of Canadian Women's Army Corps privates overseas received the top pay of $1.20, said the minister.
More than 65 per cent. of the privates stationed in canada received the top pay of $1.50 and 60 per cent. of C.W.A.C. privates received $1.20.
Gordon Graydon, Progressive Conservative House leader, asked why women's pay was less than that of men in the army. Col. Ralson replied that women were not adaptable for all forms of service and their pay was on the basis of 80 per cent. of that given men.
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