The National Unemployed Workers' Movement was a British organisation set up in 1921 by members of the Communist Party of Great Britain.
It aimed at drawing attention to the plight of unemployed workers during the post-First World War slump, the 1926 General Strike and later the Great Depression, and at fighting the Means Test.
[4] They had close links to Communist Workers Party but only gained a significant following in Poplar during the 1923 Docks Strike.
Wal Hannington filled in for George Lansbury at a meeting held in Glasgow City Hall shortly afterwards.
He criticised the UWO and defended the actions of the Poplar Board of Guardians, who had called in the police.