Attitude of Government and Administration towards the ‘Hunger Marches’ of the 1920s and 1930s

Maureen Turnbull

doi:10.1017/S0047279400002725

Attitude of Government and Administration towards the ‘Hunger Marches’ of the 1920s and 1930s

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2009

Maureen Turnbull

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The so-called ‘hunger marches’ are a familiar feature of the depression and unemployment of the inter-war years. Their inspirer was the National Unemployed Workers' Movement (N.U.W.M.) which between 1922 and 1936 organized six national demonstrations consisting of contingents from various parts of the country, converging on London. They were protesting against unemployment and low rates of assistance, ‘work or full maintenance at trade union rates’ being the recurrent demand. There were also many local demonstrations and the organization won considerable support, particularly from younger unemployed workers frustrated by the inertia of the official labour and trade union leadership.

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Information: Journal of Social Policy , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , April 1973 , pp. 131 - 142

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279400002725 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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¹ PIN 7. 126 pt. IV. (This reference, like all the following ones, is to Public Record Office material. Unpublished material in the Public Record Office, for which Crown Copyright is reserved, is reproduced by permission of the Controller of H.M.S.O.)

² HO 45/11275.

³ PIN 7/67.

⁴ HO 45/11275.Google Scholar

⁵ Ibid.

⁶ Ibid.

⁷ Ibid.

⁸ Ibid.

⁹ Ibid.

¹⁰ PIN 7/126 pt. III.

¹¹ Ibid.

¹² MEPOL 2/3066.

¹³ Ibid.