"banner, Walthamstow and Chingford National March Committee" [NBS I/D 401]

Catalogue Number
NBS I/D 401

Object Name
banner

Title
WALTHAMSTOW & CHINGFORD - SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE - FOR THE NATIONAL MARCH AND CONGRESS - UNITE - AGAINST THE NEW UNEMPLOYMENT BILL

Place
Walthamstow; Chingford & Essex & England & UK

Events
March

Date
1934

Creator(s)
NBS National Museum of Labour HistoryNBS National Museum of Labour History

Description
This is probably a banner produced by a local branch of the Communist Party of Great Britain or a body connected with it at this time, the National Unemployed Workers' Movement. The National March and Congress referred to on the banner was the National Hunger March on London and the National Congress of Action, which took place in February 1934.

The solidarity committee was organizing against the National Government's earlier economy measures, involving a 10% reduction in unemployment benefit and the application of the means test, and the new Unemployment Bill, which made drastic changes in the rules governing unemployment insurance. This was the decade of the Hungry Thirties, the Distressed Areas, and the Jarrow Marchers.

Materials: Single sided banner with ground of plain woven white cotton and lining of red twill woven wool. Painted design.

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