STUDENT BOYCOTT
Mexicans To Continue
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) MEXICO CITY, Nov. 5. Mexican students today continued their boycott of university classes while their leaders tried to work out a solution to their demands for reform with Government officials.
Despite the start of the new Mexican academic year yesterday, university and polytechnic students completely boycotted classes in support of their anti-Government demonstration.
About eight million students were to have started classes—but in Mexico City only primary students attended school. Six leaders of the student “Committee of 210”—the strike committee—have held discussions with the Government on their six-point plan for reforms, which includes greater student and worker participation in the Government, the breaking up of Mexico's riot police, the dismissal of Mexico City’s mayor, and the release of all those arrested since the student troubles began last July. Students, at a meeting of the Polytechnic Strike Council, voted unanimously for Its decision to continue the strike indefinitely, until the Government first agreed to release students held prisoner, and then to discuss other points in their demands.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31829, 6 November 1968, Page 17
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