AN ORDERLY DEMONSTRATION.

Many of the marchers did not get as far as Hyde Park. Considerable numbers proceeded back to the East-end. The march was marked throughout by quiet, silent groups of men, four or six abreast, headed by the bearers of trade union or other banners. The presence of women carrying babies among them struck a tragic note. For the most part the men were ragged and looked ill-fed.

Among units in the procession were miners from Wales (where it is said that Communism has its strongest hold), cotton operatives from Manchester, dockers and seamen from Liverpool, steel workers from Scotland and the Midlands, shipyard employees from the Clyde and Tyne, iron ore miners from Cumberland, and artisans and labourers from many other trades. A dozen men from Barrow carried sticks but there were no other signs that any of the marchers were “armed”. There was, in fact, no indication that the “Red Army” had any of the bellicose intentions attributed to them. On the other hand, the marchers found a ready sale for their newspaper, “Out of Work” by the National Administrative Council of Unemployed, the references in which to the “vicious profit-mongering system known in society as Capitalism” are familiar enough in Socialistic organs.