Edition Bobbett2. Speeches and statements by Elizabeth F. Bobbett
1936 Knockananna, Meeting of the United Farmers’ Protection Association
Source: Nationalist and Leinster Times, 07.03.1936
In the course of an interesting address, Miss Bobbett gave a detailed outline of the primary aims and objects of the Organisation and stressed the fact that the Association was open to all farmers, regardless of their political outlook or affiliations, and its chief aim was the uplifting of the general standard of living of all associated with the Irish agricultural industry. She appealed to the country shopkeepers as well as to the farm workers to support the farmers in their efforts to obtain fair prices for their livestock and general farm produce – prices which would yield the farmers a small modicum of profit and enable them to live lives of Christians, rather than the existence of nigger slaves and also enable them to maintain their workers in Christian conditions and pay them decent wages.