MORE CHILDREN ON STRIKE.
ABOLITION OF CANE DEMANDED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. September 12, 9.35 p.m.) i London, September 12. The County Council School children, at Shoreditch, Islington, and Deptford, have struck, demanding a Wednesday halfholiday, a payment of a penny a week for monitors, and the abolition, of thecane. The strikers picketed seven schools, and persuaded the scholars attending them to join. The police prevented the children from smashing the school windows. The boys at several North Manchester Schools made a procession through tho streets, demanding shorter hours and tho abolition of tho cane. Pickets forcibly prevented the entrance of the children into tho school yards, and stones were thrown at blackleg children. The mothers intervened and the strike partially collapsed.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1231, 13 September 1911, Page 5
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122MORE CHILDREN ON STRIKE. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1231, 13 September 1911, Page 5
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