Edition Bobbett2. Speeches and statements by Elizabeth F. Bobbett
1939 Dublin, Interview
Source: Evening Echo, 21.11.1939
In the course of an interview, Miss Elizabeth F. Bobbett, Secretary of the Irish Farmers’ Federation and a member of the Co-Ordinating Strike Committee, said that they were striking in sympathy with the milk producers, but also in respect of their own national demands, which are for de-rating security of tenure and a moratorium on all arrears of land annuities and rates.
“We hold,” declared Miss Bobbett, “that the granting of these demands will cost the taxpayers nothing, because security of tenure merely means amending the existing Land Acts. De-rating will cost less than £3,000,000 but the Government, save to that extent on existing services, without any loss to the nation, and the moratorium we are asking is only that the farmers be given breathing space to meet their arrears of rates and annuities.”