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[David Price]

The Burston School Strike, by Casey                                      61938
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/6/1/9/3/61938 ]
   [Files: 61938-0.txt; 61938-h.htm]



For those wishing to know: in April 1914, in the small Norfolk village of 
Burston, the local vicar, the Rev. Charles Tucker Eland, disliking the 
Methodist meeting setup by the husband of the local school teacher, 
dismissed him and his wife (both popular teachers) from their posts.  The 
villages greatly objected because they were excellent school teachers and 
were very active in helping the villagers stand up for their rights 
against the then-establishment (squire and rector as it was known).  The 
children of the school went on strike, refusing to go to school unless 
their beloved teachers were reinstated.  Instead their dismissed teachers 
taught them first on the village green, and later in people's houses, the 
villages supporting the teachers with food etc.  The strike lasted 25 
years and is the longest strike in English history.  This pamphlet gives 
the details of the strike, written in the early days, and was written to 
raise fundds to support the teachers.

All the best,
David
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