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Definition of hunger march in English: hunger marchnoun A march undertaken by a group of people in protest against unemployment or poverty, especially any of those by unemployed workers in Britain during the 1920s and 1930s. Example sentencesExamples - The 1920s saw mass unemployment and hunger marches.
- During the 1930s, Edinburgh was the end-point of many of the hunger marches organised by the National Union of Unemployed Workers.
- Just as the crises of the '60s were different from those that prompted Depression-era hunger marches and sit-down strikes, today's crises resist comparison to yesterday's.
- During the 1920s and 1930s the National Unemployed Workers' Movement organised six hunger marches to London.
- They weren't going to lead a hunger march on City Hall demanding more relief.
Derivatives noun As a child in Galloway she shook hands with one of the survivors of the Charge of the Light Brigade, and as a young doctor tended the feet of the Jarrow hunger marchers. Example sentencesExamples - The Jarrow Crusade idea was a PR disaster - it was grotesque to compare the well-fed truckers of today to 1930s hunger marchers.
- The truckers, who are following the route taken in the Thirties by hunger marchers, apparently intend to drive through the middle of York.
- This form of protest is a crude modern echo of the Jarrow Crusade when, in the autumn of 1936, some 300 hunger marchers walked to London.
- Police repeatedly fired upon hunger marchers in the early 1930s.
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