HOTEL EVACUATED.
Attempt to Placate Jobless Demonstrators.
POSITION IN VANCOUVER
(Received 11.30 a.m.) VANCOUVER, May 23. I Five hundred dollars was paid out of the city funds to the 1500 transient unemployed who, in defiance of the decision of the Dominion and Provincial Governments that they would hot be eligible for relief unless they returned to their homes in other parts of Canada, invaded the Post Office, Art Gallery and one of the leading hotels of Vancouver.
The demonstrators evacuated the Hotel Georgia, but still occupy parts of the Post Office and Art Gallery, refusing to disperse to their homes
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 120, 24 May 1938, Page 7
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