Forward, Unemployed
In the Twenties and Thirties, the National Unemployed Workers Movement mobilised thousands to resist the indignities of unemployment. As we enter another economic crisis, we should learn from their fight.
In her welcoming speech to the 1922 Trades Union Congress in Southport, the town’s mayor Christiana Hartley took the opportunity to express the ignorance of her class. In her speech, Mayor Hartley — a heiress to the Hartley’s jam fortune — derided the growing sense of injustice felt by millions, asking delegates: Why all this […]
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