Edition Bobbett2. Speeches and statements by Elizabeth F. Bobbett
1936 Hacketstown, Meeting of the United Farmers’ Protection Association
Source: Nationalist and Leinster Times, 04.04.1936
In the course of a most interesting address, Miss Elizabeth Bobbett gave a detailed outline of the primary objects of the Association and stressed the fact that the organisation was open to all farmers irrespective of class, creed or political affiliations. Its chief aim was the uplifting to a higher plane the general standard of living of all connected with the Irish agricultural industry. She appealed to the farm workers, as well as country shopkeepers to support the farmers in their efforts to procure fair prices for their livestock and farm produce; prices which would give them some small modicum of profit and enable them to live like Christians, rather than an existence of nigger slaves, which they were compelled to endure at present.