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The composition of the demonstration reflected the sectors hardest hit by the depression. A large proportion-more than a third were black people. Unemployment amongst blacks has been estimated at 21 per cent, more than twice the official rate for whites.
At least half the participants were women, reflecting their increased role in the labour force, particularly in the public sector.
The rally was called by the AFL-CIO, the central American labour organisation-an indication of the mounting pressure on the trade union leadership to do something against soaring unemployment. Nearly ten million people are officially out of work-over 8 per cent of the total workforce.
The trade union bureaucrats, of course, put forward no programme ****** Up to 60,000 American workers participated in a 'Rally for Jobs Now in Washington, D.C., on 26 April. It was tie first such demonstration since the 1932 "bonus army' march of unemployed war veterans-in fact, it was the first major political demonstration by US trade unions directed against the Government in decades. And it signalled a mood of rebellion, spurred by the current depression, that is beginning to develop in the ranks of American labour-potentially the most powerful force for social change build and modernise.
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