VANCOUVER BATTLE
RELIEF MEN AND POLICE DAMAGE DONE TO BUILDINGS TWO HOURS' FIGHT (United Tress Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received June 20, 2.30 p.m.) VANCOUVER, June 19. Angry men on relief who have been on a sit-down strike in the art gallery of the post office for nearly a month were ejected by means of tear gas bombs after a pitched battle with police in which 50 were injured. Men of the Royal. Canadian Mounted Police assisted the local police against a thousand unemployed demonstrators in a two hours' fight in the streets. Damage estimated at 200,000 dollars was caused to the post office art gallery and to scores of shops which were wrecked.
The men last month demanded that the Government restore relief after they had been cut off the relief rolls, and when the Government refused they moved into the post office and camped there and announced that they would remain until something was done. Battling as they retreated through the galleries, the men smashed the fixtures, hurled stones, and tore pictures from the walls.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 143, 20 June 1938, Page 10
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