SCHOOL STRIKE
Mothers Guard Bridge
A grout) of mothers stood guard over i bridge at Tonmawt village recently and refused to let children cross over, states the "Daily Express.” Below the bridge a swollen torrent • need and roared. On the other side was a school with empty desks. The Tonina wr mothers held the bridge all day, and would not let a single child risk the crossing.
Education officials tried to persuade them to adopt a less belligerent attitude, but the women replied by calling a school strike until the bridge is repaired. The bridge was or-ginally built for miners working nt the Garth Colliery, ft t« made of wood and is the on’.v <mte by which a larae number of chll (Iron in tho village -an roach their school. There has been a dispute about the maintenance of the bridge.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 88, 8 January 1935, Page 9
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141SCHOOL STRIKE Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 88, 8 January 1935, Page 9
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