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The Syracuse School Strike

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 28, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 42.

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The Syracuse School Strike

A short time ago, 1,000 high school pupils in Syracuse, New York, were reported to have gone out on strike, as a protest against a change in the hours of study. Many of the strikers were girls. They escaped from the schoolhouses through windows and side doors, paraded the business streets, and held indignation meetings. The strike idea seems to be very deeply rooted in our “modern civilization,” and incidentally, it shows how much society lacks in self-control. A few leading spirits will begin an agitation and make a start in some given direction, and then the rest follow in a general mob, hardly knowing whither they are going.