MEN MOVE ON

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 144, 21 June 1938, Page 10

MEN MOVE ON

CANADIAN UNEMPLOYED

INVASION OF VICTORIA

PARLIAMENT HOUSE GUARDED

(United Press Association—By Electric Telceraph—Copyrtiiht.) (Received June 21, 2.40 p.m.) VICTORIA, 8.C., June 20. A hundred of the unemployed who were evicted from the Post Office at Vancouver arrived in Victoria by boat and announced their intention to stage a sit-down strike in the Parliament Buildings.

Civic and provincial police threw a heavy guard around all the entrances to the buildings, and the marching men took up their quarters in the hall of the Relief Workers' Union.

The leader of the men stated that 500 more will arrive shortly.

DUPES OF AGITATORS

MEN NOT BLAMED

PREMIER'S FIRM STAND (Received June 21, 2.30 pjn.) VANCOUVER, June 20. Defying the policy of the Radical Canadian Commonwealth Federation Party, the Premier, Mr. T. D. Pattullo, during a stormy conference, declared that the unemployed were not to blame for their demonstrations and were the dupes of professional agitators and trouble-makers. The Government, he said, insisted that the men who had gathered here from other provinces would not be granted assistance. The rioters had been offered free transportation and the payment Of their expenses to reach their homes in the east. Further lawlessness would not be tolerated. The Government was prepared to quell any disturbance and refused to call a special session of the Legislature.

MENTION AT OTTAWA

"LAW MUST PREVAIL"

TOO MUCH LENIENCY SHOWN (Received June 21, 2.50 p.m.) OTTAWA, June 20. In the House of Commons, Mr. J. S. Woodworth, Leader of the Commonwealth Federation Party, described the eviction of the unemployed demonstrators from Vancouver as a disgraceful attack on unprepared men by policemen without provocation, and alleged that the heavy damage to property was due to the men being crazed by tear gas.

The Minister of Justice, Mr. E. Lapointe, stated that he was amazed that Mr. Woodworth defended the lawless seizure of a Federal building and the civic art gallery. The only fault of the Government was that it had shown too much leniency. Every method had been adopted to make the eviction as humane as possible. The men had resisted and deliberately wrecked stores in the • city, causing 30,000 dollars' damage. "The law must prevail in this country," he said, "and as long as I have anything to do with the Government it will prevail."