Abstract
On a cold evening on 1 November 1932, while the hunger marchers were streaming towards Parliament Square for the climax of their campaign in London, after three hard weeks on the road, the evening papers placarded the news that Wal Hannington, their leader, had been arrested and refused bail. The charge against him was that of attempting to disaifect the police by appealing to their sense of working class solidarity; they too should join in resisting the economic measures that affected them all.
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Notes
Wal Hannington, Unemployed Struggles: 1919–1936 (Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1936) p. 281.
Claud Cockburn, In Time of Trouble (Rupert Hart-Davies, London, 1956; rpt. 1957, Readers Union) pp. 228–9.
Ronald Kidd, British Liberty in Danger (Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1940) p. 150.
Barry Cox, Civil Liberties in Britain (Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1975) p. 26.
Ronald Kidd, The Harworth Colliery Strike (NCCL, London, 1937) p. 13.
Harry Street, Freedom, the Individual and the Law, 5th edn (Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1982) pp. 212–13.
Thom Young, Incitement to Disaffection (Cobden Trust, London, 1976) p. 66.
E. M. Forster, ‘Ronald Kidd’ in Two Cheers for Democracy (Edward Arnold, London, 1951; rpt. Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1965) pp. 59–60.
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Lilly, M. (1984). 1934–39. In: The National Council for Civil Liberties. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17483-6_1
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