2-720-546 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Scottish marchers, Means Test protests, Hyde Park, London, 1932, (1933). 'The Scottish demonstrators make their entry. Most of the marchers made their way peaceably to their homes'. One banner reads: 'Edinburgh District Contingent, Means Test Means Mass Murder - Smash It'. The National Hunger March of September to October 1932 was the largest of a series of hunger marches in Britain. The unemployment rate having reached 2,750,000, the 1932 National Unemployed Workers' Movement organised Great National Hunger March against the Means Test, marching from the South Wales Valleys, Scotland and the North of England to Hyde Park in London. From "The Pageant of the Century". [Odhams Press Ltd, 1933]