MARCH ON OTTAWA
COMMUNIST PLOT Relief-Camp Desertcn THREAT TO JUMP TRAINS (By Telegraph-Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received 25, 1.30 am) OTTAWA, JA-? £4. Faced with a threat by 2000 reliefcamp deserters to inwade Ottawa cn freight trains, despite Government prohibition, the Prime Minister (Mr. R. B. Bennett) to-day appealed (o all Canadians to realise that the Dominion was challenged by a well organised Communist plot. Five hundred police at Regina have been ordered to see that the men are kept off the trains. Fifteen hundred unemployed in Winnipeg threaten to start a similar trek. The leader, Mr. Arthur Evans, to-day announced that he is a Communist and proud of it, The Vancouver dock strike i« collapsing. With 500 men replacing the strikers, ships are moving freely.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 162, 25 June 1935, Page 7
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