CANADIAN UNEMPLOYED

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 146, 23 June 1938, Page 10

CANADIAN UNEMPLOYED

SITUATION TENSE OTTAWA GOVERNMENT'S FIRM STAND (Received June 23, 2.30 p.m.) VANCOUVER, June 22. The situation caused by the rebel* lious unemployed has become tense, and three cities are divided sharply into two camps. , As a result of public subscriptions, 200 of the men were dispatched to Nanaimo and 100 to Victoria. - The crux of the situation is whether J7OO non-British fcolumbians shall b# aided here or compelled to return to their homes in the east. The men are strongly supported by thousand! of members of the Radically-inclined Canadian Commonwealth Federation Party and the Communist Party and some trade unions, which demand the [ resignation of the Provincial Govern- ; ment. \ Buildings and, stores in the capital city, Victoria, are heavily guarded, and L also stores in Vancouver and Nanaimo. , The Premier, Mr. T. D. Pattullo, it . firmly declining' all the demands o! r the unemployed. ' The Federal Minister of Labour, Mr. t N. M. Rogers, states that the Govern- | ment will not change its policy of not . giving the men relief until. they go 1 home. ..- ■ ■