COMMUNIST PLOT.
THE CANADIAN TREKS. APPEAL BY PREMIER. Received June 25, 12.55 p.m. OTTAWA, June 24. Faced with the threat by 2000 relief camp deserters to invade Ottawa on freight trains, despite the Government prohibition, Mr R. B. Bennett (Premier) to-day appealed to all Canadians to realise that the Dominion was challenged by a well-organised Communist plot. Five hundred police at Regina were ordered to see that the men were kept off the trains. Fifteen hundred unemployed in Winnipeg threaten to start a similar trek. The leader, Arthur Evans, to-day announced that he was a Communist dud proud of it. Vancouver reports that the dock strike is collapsing with 500 men replacing the strikers The ships are moving freely.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 176, 25 June 1935, Page 7
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119COMMUNIST PLOT. Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 176, 25 June 1935, Page 7
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