PREMISES OCCUPIED
VANCOUVER UNEMPLOYED FED BY SYMPATHISERS (Received May 22, 5.5 p.m.) VANCOUVER, May 21 Fifteen hundred single unemployed men. in defiance of the decision of tho Dominion and Provincial Governments that they would not be eligible for relief funds unless they returned to their homes in other parts of Canada, have invaded the Post Office and the Art Gallery, also one of the leading hotels, at Vancouver. They are sleeping on the floors and having food brought to them by sympathisers. They have refused to leave the premises. Following upon a warning by the Government against interference with the mails, the workers at the Post Office have not been molested. Their ejection by the police has been delayed for fear of heavy consequent damage to property.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23044, 23 May 1938, Page 9
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