Kelley's Army marches on Washington

1894 USA: Kelley's Army – Federal troops drove some 1,200 protesting jobless workers from the nation’s capital across the Potomac River. Led by an unemployed activist, Charles ‘Hobo’ Kelley, the motley group came from western states and camped in Washington, DC beginning in early July. The ‘soldiers’ in Kelley’s Hobo Army included a young journalist named Jack London (1876 - 1916) and labour leader William ‘Big Bill’ Haywood (1869 - 1928). Coxey’s Army, another group of unemployed men, also marched on Washington at around the same time.