Debate on The Apprentices Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1904 · col. 9350

The Speaker: The question before the House is that the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. I call the Minister.

Kurt Uhl (Minister of Education): I beg to move that the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. The Bill provides for the schools what the last Bill did not. The textbooks are the Ministry's and remain so. The printed Bill says it better than I can: Applies to children between 6 and 15. I commend the Bill to the House.

Otto Falk (The Sudmark; The Reed Party): Sir, The members for the reed districts will ask, as they always ask, what the Bill means for the harvest and the causeways. The schools will do what the Bill says, as they do what every Bill says, and the children will not notice. The Sudmark has had a hard year. I say that not against the Bill but so that the Minister remembers it when the fees are fixed. We shall divide the House. [The Line!]

Sigmund Karner (Westgau; The Continuity Party): Sir, My constituents in Westgau wrote to me about the Bill, all 5 of them, and they were against it until they read it. Order and record. That is the whole of my party's programme and I do not apologise for its shortness. The material provision is this: Applies to children between 6 and 15. I ask the House to note it. The schools will do what the Bill says, as they do what every Bill says, and the children will not notice. I support the Bill, with the reservation I have stated. [The Line!]

Josef Wickkrul (Norrfeld; The Continuity Party): Mr. Speaker, Order and record. That is the whole of my party's programme and I do not apologise for its shortness. My constituents in Norrfeld wrote to me about the Bill, all 8 of them, and they were against it until they read it. The schools will do what the Bill says, as they do what every Bill says, and the children will not notice. The material provision is this: Applies to children between 6 and 15. I ask the House to note it. I shall vote against the Bill. [Shame.]

Oskar Rusk (The Capital District; The Continuity Party): Mr. Speaker, The members for The Capital District have met and are of one mind on the Bill, which does not happen often. Order and record. That is the whole of my party's programme and I do not apologise for its shortness. The material provision is this: Applies to children between 6 and 15. I ask the House to note it. The schools will do what the Bill says, as they do what every Bill says, and the children will not notice. We shall divide the House.

Arno Wendholt (The Ostrand; The Continuity Party): Sir, I have read the Bill for what it does to the record, which is the only reading that matters, and it does nothing to the record. The Ministry's textbooks are the Ministry's and I have no observation to make on their contents. My constituents in The Ostrand wrote to me about the Bill, all 7 of them, and they were against it until they read it. I cannot vote for the Bill as it stands and I shall not. [Laughter.]

The Minister, in reply, said that the points raised were answered in the printed Bill and that the Ministry would consider the rest.

The Speaker put the question. The Ayes were challenged and the House divided.

The Speaker: The Ayes have it. The Bill is passed and will go to the Grand Chancellor for assent.

The House then proceeded to the next Order of the Day.