May 12, 2015
“There were two-and-three-quarter million unemployed. Local authorities could poke into the means of a whole family before giving a pittance to or withholding it from any part of it unemployed. They even had their own party: The National Unemployed Workers' Movement. The Hunger Marchers for short. The police had their long staves out, fat and employed, they gave them short shrift. They had brought only a million signatures on their petition, it was not enough, they were law-abiding. The Marchers were outnumbered by onlookers, the real enemy, the uncommitted.”
