§ Mr. MarshallIt is my privilege to present to this honourable House a petition from old age pensioners. It reads as follows:
To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, in Parliament assembled:The humble petition of old age pensioners in Sheffield and district showeth that much hardship and dire poverty is prevalent among your petitioners, owing to the inadequacy of the present old age pensions causing many of your petitioners to have to apply for public assistance and others to become an expense and burden on their sons and daughters.Wherefore, your petitioners pray that your honourable House will as soon as possible bring relief to your petitioners by increasing the amount of the present old age pensions; and your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray, etc.The petition has been signed by 16,865 old age pensioners in Sheffield and district.