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Jarrow March (Successes (Petition presented to house of commons, Improved…
Jarrow March
Successes
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Support from the public, completed the march
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Opposition to the march
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Labour Party
PM Stanley Baldwin = unsympathetic to marchers. Jarrow marchers didnt favour a political party. Will Hannington (founder of NUWM) was a communist and hated by labour
Trades Union Congress
Thought that the marchers but bad publicity to the unemployed.
Believed in the national movement
National Unemployment workers movement
Jarrow marches refused to co-operate with larger march organised by NUWM
NUWM objected to the non-political nature of the Jarrow March
Failures
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Didn't start employment, rearmament did
Jarrow, Newcastle = The worst affected area of all during the Great Depression
They key industry in Jarrow was Palmers shipyard which provided all of the job. The end of WWI meant that warships were no longer needed so many workers became redundant. In 1934 the shipyard was closed and 80% of the people became unemployed. 800 employed men -> 100 on temoporary labour
A march was organised by the people of the town from Jarrow to London.
The aim was to attract attention to the plight of the town by taking a petition all the way to parliment, led by Ellen Wilkinson, the labour party MP for Jarrow.
200 men walked 450km to London in 22 stages
During the March
- it was carefully planned and prepared
- They wore their best clothes (clean shaven) to have the largest impact.
- Received support everywhere (put up in churches and given free meals, shoes repaired for free)
- When they arrived in London they got little sympathy from govt.
Supported by people
- It was the right thing to do.
- Many had lost their jobs too so they felt sympathetic.
- People didn't like how the government was dealing with the Great Depression