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Unemployed demonstration

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Unemployed demonstration

The unemployed march through Christchurch together with their union supporters, in a May Day demonstration in 1932.

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Hocken Collections, University of Otago

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Erik Olssen, Unions and employee organisations – Red Feds, 1913 strike and Alliance of Labour, 1913–35, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/22270/unemployed-demonstration (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Erik Olssen, published 4 February 2010.