Fall in and follow me

Fall in and Follow Me was a Music Hall song that became the “Marseillaise” of school children strikers in a wave of protests that swept the UK in 1911. The mainstream press is not well-known for its fairness and objectivity in describing strikes, but check out the condescending way in which the Dundee Evening Telegraph reported events:

Dundee Evening Telegraph – Wednesday 13 September 1911
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