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.
反饥饿示威游行（反对失业或贫穷的游行，尤指20世纪20和30年代英国失业工人的游行）
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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
hunger marcher
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.
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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.