PENSHWN I HEN DDYNON.
Ma’n dda gyta ¹fi fod y dynon mawr yn yr House o Commons yn dechre acor i llyced bothti ²rho’ ticyn ³o help i hen ddynon ar ol ffaelu gwitho. Ma’n gwilydd na fysa nhw wedi dechra’n nghynt, wath ⁴ ma miloedd o hen withwrs caled wedi cal marw o isha bwyd, ar ol slafo’n galad ⁵trw’u bywyd. Ma llawar hen goliar clawd ⁶wedi ala hanar can mlynadd yn y pwll glo, a wedi ffaelu, mor ddigownt ⁷ a hen geffyla. Yn yr amsar ma nhw wedi gwitho ma nhw wedi doti ffortshwns yn boceti’r mishdri, a doti miloedd o buna yn mocad Budjat y wlad, a wetin yn cal i ala i’r workws i farw, a odd yno i’r bedd mwn hen gart.

PENSIONS FOR THE ELDERLY. I’m pleased to hear the grand men of the House of Commons are starting to open their eyes to giving some help to old men who can no longer work. It’s shameful they have done nothing until now, as thousands of old workers have already died of hunger after labouring hard all their lives. How many broken colliers have there been, weakened through working fifty years of labouring in the pit, were then treated with less worth than an old horse. While they worked, they put fortunes in the pockets of their masters, and thousands to the government. Afterwards, they’ve been sent to the workhouse to die and thrown to the grave from an old cart.

Ma plismans, a postmans, a sowdjwrs, yn cael penshwns ar ol bod dan y Llywodraeth am ucian mlynadd, ond os bydd gwithwrs calad yn ala tri ucian mlynedd cha nhw ddim. Pwy ⁸wara teg yw hyny? Ond gwath yto, ma gwyr y Parlament yn cal miloedd am lanw rhw ofis am dair neu betar blynadd, a llawar o Lords, Marcwisis, Dukes, a Prinsis, a big guns erill yn cal penshwns, achos bod’u hen, hen, hen dadcu nhw wedi bod yn helpu un o’r hen frenhinoedd i wisgo’i drowsis, ne wedi rhoi bocs snuff i rw hen frenhinas. Tysa rhai o’r Em Pees yn cropo coin rheina fysa dim isha bod mor gynil i roi ticyn i hen withwrs. Ma’n drenu meddwl bod y wlad mor dwp, a bod shwd beisha o hen rascals yn robo’r dyrnas o filodd bob blwyddyn, a neb o’r membars a dicon o blyc yndi nhw i drio doti ⁹stop ar y game. W i yn dishgwl bydd rhai o nhw yn tampo ((neidio/ jumping)at y gwaith pryd y daw y Mesur hwn mlan, onte fe fydda i yn lled depig o binsho’u clusta nhw.

Policemen, postmen and soldiers are all given pensions from the government for twenty years service, but workers devote sixty years for nothing. Where’s the justice? But worse still, MP’s are given thousands for filling an office for some three or four years, and plenty of Lords, Marquises, Dukes, Princes and other big guns have pensions, all because their great, great, great grandfather once helped an old King pull up his trousers or gave a box of snuff to some Queen or other. If MPs could cut some of their takings, there wouldn’t be a need to be frugal in giving to workers. It’s shameful to think we live in a country so stupid, that such a clutch of rascals can rob the Kingdom of thousands each year and that none of their members has the pluck to put a stop to their game. I expect some of them will be railing against this Measure once it comes forward, but I’ll be quite ready to pinch their ears.

Gan Fachan Ifanc. Darian y Gweithiwr / Newspaper. ‘Shield of the Workers’ (1897)

1. gyda/ with[↩]
2. o gwmpas/ about[↩]
3. tipyn / bit[↩]
4. achos/ because[↩]
5. caled/ hard[↩]
6. tlawd/ poor[↩]
7. unimportant[↩]
8. pa/ what[↩]
9. rhoi/ put[↩]