War on Food Pirates

Series

Series Name
Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.
262-1
Date Released
30 Aug 1916
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Football Season Opens
  2. 2War on Food Pirates
  3. 3Rumania Declares War
  4. 4Brigade Sports
  5. 5Serbian Slava

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 5
Summary
[SUBTITLE]: "A huge demonstration marching through Trafalgar Square. ‘The Government must confiscate the food supplies’ - Mr Ben Tillett." Procession with banners, with a large one reading ‘National Union of Railwaymen. Hands off the people’s food. Down with the exploiter or up with the wage’), women and schoolgirls carrying banners (including ‘Hands off the people’s food’ and ‘Feed thy lambs’, and band.
Keywords
Politics and government
Length of story (in feet)
67

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