SCHOOLBOY STRIKES.
FRESH OUTBREAKS. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. United Press Association. London, September 13. The schoolboy strikes continued at Ushton-undcr-Lyuc, Grimsby, Bradford, Sheffield, Hull and Leith, hundreds parading the streets and proclaiming that they demanded less work and less cane. , The strikers at Hull stoned the teaches and marched to the school armed with broomsticks, intimidating non-strikers. There were some strikers at Salford, but tho movement at Manchester collapsed and the truants were caned. There wore disturbances at Hoxton, Islington, Enfield, Tottenham, Fulham, Clerkemvell, Kentish Town and Stepney. Strikers held meetings in tho streets, which they processioned, waving cardboard banners, inscribed with the words: “No cane; more holidays during the hot weather!” Crowds of mothers assembled at a number of school doors at closing time to take the strikers home.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 25, 14 September 1911, Page 5
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