Debate on The Teachers' Pay Regulation Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1953 · col. 13959

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

Egon Brenn (Minister of Education): I beg to move that the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. I am told the Bill is a small one. It is. Most Bills that concern children are. I read the material clause to the House. Applies to children between 6 and 15. I move.

Paul Reinholt (The Osmoor; The Continuity Party): Speaker, The Bill is in order. The Clerk has entered it. The Ministry of Chronology has seen it. I do not see what more the House requires. I am for the schoolmasters, who are underpaid, and for the Bill, which does not pay them. The Osmoor has had a hard year. I say that not against the Bill but so that the Minister remembers it when the fees are fixed. I oppose the third reading. [Shame.]

Hedwig Fenn (The Ostrand; The Workers' Front): Mr. Speaker, The Ostrand has had a hard year. I say that not against the Bill but so that the Minister remembers it when the fees are fixed. I ask the Minister a plain question: who pays? The men of the mills pay. The Front will vote as it always votes, for the wage and against the fee. I have the Bill before me and the House has it before it. I am for the schoolmasters, who are underpaid, and for the Bill, which does not pay them. The Bill should pass and I shall vote for it.

Vera Hallin (The Ostrand; The Reed Party): Speaker, The people of The Ostrand will ask what it costs them, and I should like to be able to tell them. The Reed Party has read the Bill with the harvest in mind. The harvest is late this year and the causeways are under water in two districts. The Bill says so in terms: Applies to children between 6 and 15. The schools will do what the Bill says, as they do what every Bill says, and the children will not notice. My party will divide the House on the Bill. [Interruption.]

Frieda Hallin (The Ostrand; The Assembly Union): Speaker, I ask the House to consider the tradesman who will have to comply with this. He has not been consulted; he has been notified. I am for the schoolmasters, who are underpaid, and for the Bill, which does not pay them. 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 shall vote against the Bill. [The Line!]

Paul Ebner (Westgau; The Workers' Front): Mr. Speaker, The Workers' Front has looked for the working man in this Bill and found him in the schedule, paying. The people of Westgau will ask what it costs them, and I should like to be able to tell them. The schools will do what the Bill says, as they do what every Bill says, and the children will not notice. I have the Bill before me and the House has it before it. I support the Bill, with the reservation I have stated. [Interruption.]

Paul Brenn (Westgau; The Continuity Party): Mr. Speaker, The Bill is in order. The Clerk has entered it. The Ministry of Chronology has seen it. I do not see what more the House requires. The people of Westgau will ask what it costs them, and I should like to be able to tell them. The Ministry's textbooks are the Ministry's and I have no observation to make on their contents. The schedule is plain enough. Comes into force on 1 January 1954. The Bill should pass and I shall vote for it. [Hear, hear.]

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 adjourned shortly after noon.