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workingclasshistory: “On this day, 5 September 1911, a UK-wide strike wave of schoolchildren was sparked when pupils in Llanelli, Wales walked out in sympathy with a boy who was disciplined by a deputy headmaster. From this one school, walkouts...

workingclasshistory:

On this day, 5 September 1911, a UK-wide strike wave of schoolchildren was sparked when pupils in Llanelli, Wales walked out in sympathy with a boy who was disciplined by a deputy headmaster. From this one school, walkouts spread across the country to at least 62 towns and cities, with pupils demanding an end to corporal punishment, and for shorter hours. The schoolchildren’s strikes followed a summer of workers’ industrial disputes.
This is a fantastic pamphlet about the walkouts: https://libcom.org/history/childrens-strikes-1911
Pictured: schoolchildren on strike in Shoreditch, London, 1911 https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1800796110105531/?type=3

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