ANGRY BELIEF WORKERS
EJECTED FROM POST OFFICE AND ART GALLERY SEQUEL TO CANADIAN SIT-DOWN STRIKE Press. Association—By Telegraph—Oopyrlgtc VANCOUVER, June 19. (Received June 20, at 2 p.m.) Angry relief men who were on the sit-down strike in the Art Gallery and Post Office for nearly a month were ejected by tear gas bombs after a pitched battle with the police, in which 50 were injured. Royal Canadian “ Mounties ” assisted the local police against unemployed demonstrators in a two hours’ fight in the streets in which 200,000 dollars damage was done. The Post Office, Art Gallery, and a score of shops were wrecked. Tho men last month demanded that the Government restore relief after they had been out off from the relief rolls. When the Government refused they moved to tho Post Office, where they camped. They announced that they would remain until something was done. Battling as obey retreated through the galleries, the men smashed fixtures, hurled stones, and tore pictures from the walls.
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Evening Star, Issue 22988, 20 June 1938, Page 8
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164ANGRY BELIEF WORKERS Evening Star, Issue 22988, 20 June 1938, Page 8
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