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Description: | This placard relates to the campaign organised by the National Unemployed Workers Movement against the Unemployment Act of 1934. The act established a new system for administering unemployment benefit but contained several controversial measures, including compulsory training in labour camps.
1934 and 1935 saw many national demonstrations against the act. In January 1935, unemployed demonstrators invaded the House of Commons and fighting broke out. On 24 February a large march through London ended in eight arrests. This placard is one of a series contrasting the wealth of the royal family with the poverty of the unemployed. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | Museum of London | Subjects: | work Power and Politics | Temporal: | 1933-1936 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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