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September 5, 1931. 112 people, including 12 women, took part in a hunger march to the TUC offices in Bristol, under the slogan "Struggle or Starve". A third of the marchers were from Rhondda. The TUC refused to listen to the deputation and the march was broken up in Bristol by mounted police. [5]
The Great Depression was the worst economic crisis in US history. More than 15 million Americans were left jobless and unemployment reached 25%.
Marches of the unemployed to London, termed "hunger marches", had taken place since the early 1920s, mainly organised by the National Unemployed Workers' Movement (NUWM), a communist-led body. For fear of being associated with communist agitation, the Labour Party and Trades Union Congress (TUC) leaderships stood aloof from these marches. They ...
A central element of its activities was a series of hunger marches to London, organised in 1922, 1929, 1930, 1932, 1934 and 1936. [1] The largest of these was the National Hunger March, 1932 , which was followed by some days of serious violence across central London with 75 people being badly injured, [ 2 ] which in turn led directly to the ...
The first National Hunger March took place in November 1931, as unemployed workers marched to the capitol from as far as Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco. They arrived in Washington, D.C., on December 6, 1931, and attempted to present their demands in the Senate and House chambers, but were not permitted to enter. [32]
See photos. 22 inches of snow covers Rochester NY (1992) Around 22 inches of snow covered Rochester between March 11 and 12, 1992. On the first day, a Delta MD-80 arriving from Nashville slid off ...
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The 2011 anti-cuts protest in London, also known as the March for the Alternative, was a demonstration held in central London on 26 March 2011. Organised by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), it was a protest march against planned public spending cuts by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government that was formed in May 2010.