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STRIKE THREATENED.
Dissatisfied Schoolchildren.
SYDNEY, April 25.--A large propor
tion of pupils at practically every public
school on the northern coalfields may
take part in a one-day strike on Monday.
[May 3, unles there is a change in the
reported decision of the Education De
partment to open the schools that day.
which is the May Day public holiday in
the Newcastle and Maitland districts,
and to close them on the Sydney 8-hour
Day public holiday. Eight-hour Day is
not observed in the north.
The various northern miners' lodges are
making plans for the strike. They claim
that their children should have the same
public holiday as their parents.
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