Young people retrace the Jarrow

Great-grandchildren of the original Jarrow marchers yesterday joined a new jobs protest on the epic walk’s 75th anniversary.

Around 50 young ­unemployed people set off to retrace the 300-mile journey to London to demand a work creation programme.

The march, organised by Youth Fight for Jobs, will finish with a protest against high unemployment levels on November 5.

Organiser Claire Laker-Mansfield said: “We are marching to demand that the Government invests in a decent future for young people... there are almost a million out of work.”

Some 200 men marched from Jarrow, Tyne and Wear, to the capital in ­October 1936 to protest against unemployment and extreme poverty in North East England.

Mark Serwotka of the Public and Commercial Services Union said: “Young people are saying communities must never be abandoned.”

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by John Kelly, Sunday Mirror 2/10/2011