Canings for schoolboy strikers

 

When striking schoolboys returned to classes their demand that there should be no canings as a reprisal was refused ….

As published in the Evening Express (Liverpool, England), 8 August 1919.

 

Schoolboy strikers in the Australia had a similar experience in 1893.

As published in Austin Daily Herald (Minnesota, United States) 9 March 1893.

 

And, again in India in 1930.

As published in the Montana Record-Herald (Helena, Montana, United States),  18 October 1930.

 

When boys at a school in Cornwall, England, heard that their new headmaster was to be a man from Liverpool, half of them went on strike. They wanted their existing assistant master to get the job.

A local newspaper took it upon itself to declare, ‘There are a lot of boys at Polruan who want spanking, and whose parents ought to know better.’ 

As published in the Herald and Express (Torquay, Devon), 13 January 1922.

 

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