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Alberta Premier Calls For Militia I ARREST OF COUNCIL By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Rec. June 14, 5.5 p.m.) Vancouver, June 13. An Edmonton (Alberta) message states that following threats from unemployed, allegedly under Communist influence, that they would seize the civic buildings and loot the stores, the Premier, Mr. J. E. Brownlee, called for the militia. A detachment ot the Strathcona horse was rushed in a special train from Calgary and was held in barracks. At Calgary a score of the unemployed Invaded restaurants, refusing to pay after securing meals. They were arrested, but a mob stormed the police headquarters in an attempt to release them. The crowd, however, was dispersed by repeated police charges. At Druniheller, Alberta, the whole of the town council was arrested on the complaint of men out of work and charged with failing to provide for the unemployed, as provided by the criminal code. Canada law stipulates that it shall be the duty of civic bodies to “make suitable provision for the poor and destitute.”
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 221, 15 June 1931, Page 9
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172IDLE MEN RESTIVE Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 221, 15 June 1931, Page 9
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