“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).