National Unemployed Movement

National Unemployed Movement stages a hunger march in Port of Spain

📅 19 Yüni 1933

On 19 June 1933, the National Unemployed Movement (NUM) organized a hunger march in Port of Spain. Demonstrators demanded relief work for unemployed people and restoration of rent controls. The action...

Police block a planned march linking sugar workers and the unemployed

📅 20 Yüli 1934

A hunger march planned for 20 July 1934 was intended to bring sugar workers from Caroni to Port of Spain, joining Indo-Trinidadian sugar workers with Afro-Trinidadian unemployed people organized by...