SCHOOLS IN PROTEST
" PAYLESS PAY-DAYS " CHICAGO DEMONSTRATION (Received April 16, 7.5 p.m.) CHICAGO. April 15 Teachers and students of the Chicago public schools marched in procession to-day as a protest against "payless pay-days." Traffic came to a standstill, as tho procession was many blocks long. Pedagogues and pupils and groups representing tho parents' and teachers' associations trudged through the streets. Many teachers chose to join the demonstrators instead of calling at their schools, where cheques for 1,700,000 dollars (£340,000 at par) awaited them, representing the pay for tho last week of June, 1932.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21468, 17 April 1933, Page 9
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