“Bloody Sunday’, November 13th, 1887. As the police set about the unemployed demonstrators in Trafalgar Square, Mr. R. H. B. Marsham, the Magistrate of Greenwich Police Court, arrives on the scene with an escort of Her Majesty's Life Guards. The trade union leaders of the unemployed and some of their political allies Left to right, Tom . Mann anid John Burns, both of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, and both members of the Social Democratic Federation; and Will Thorne, the gasworker and member of the S.D.F. who organised the gasworkers’ union and became a leading campaigner for the eight-hour da).