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  1. Procession of the unemployed, a feature of
  2. social protest in interwar Britain. The first
  3. took place from Glasgow to London in 1922 and
  4. another in 1929. In 1932 the National
  5. Unemployed Workers' Movement organized the
  6. largest demonstration, with groups converging
  7. on London from all parts of the country, but
  8. the most emotive was probably the Jarrow
  9. Crusade of 1936, when 200 unemployed shipyard
  10. workers marched to the capital (see
  11. unemployment).
  12.