SCHOOL BOYS STRIKE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17294, 18 October 1919, Page 2 (Supplement)

SCHOOL BOYS STRIKE.

" A HOLIDAY I.IKE FATHER." Jeca ise they only got two days' leave ; for bank holiday, while their fathers are '■. having a week's rest, the boys of the upper forms of the Braintree (Essex) ' nurch Elementary School went on strike w;en the school reopened, marching out <> f the < lassrooms shouting, " We'll have .. week's holiday like father!" i Ml tin) works at, Braintree were closed tor a week and the council school was closed for six weeks, but the children of the chinch school, according to precedent, have three weeks' holiday at the peapicking time, and again three woeks at trie harvest. I he, girls and younger boys remained '■» school, but all efforts by the assistant-i-oachers to pet the bie bovs hack to their ««mi faded. They held'a demonstrat on n the street outside the school, and thin uSmZa' R,^ Sl *° the river, where they Mdle 1 and fished during the morning. ilralr? mn ? the was a noisy demonPlme h° an Mde *» **«>1- Parental *» h.Jf the u OP W d in ma *- v cases and i^ b^ ,kPrs , r r' turned to school. out. The i>rn~2!i se who r«nained We^^^^'^^^ep^d, of. We won't go to school tfai, £'*£?*

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