VANCOUVER RIOTS
FIERCE POLICE BATTLE TEAR GAS USED ON UNEMPLOYED. Dinted Press Assn.- Bv Electric Tc*h*<_’ i a i»h < uiivi'ijh L. VANCOUVER, June 19. Angry men on relief w ho have been on a sit-down strike* in the art gallery of the post office lor nearly a month were ejected by means of tear gas bombs after a pitched battle with police in which 50 were injured. Men of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police assisted the local police ogain-st a thousand unemployed demonstrators in a two hours’ fight in the streets. Damage estimated at 200,000 doiIrrs was caused to the post office art gallery and to scores of shops which were wrecked. The men last month demanded that the Government restore relief after they had Ibeen cut off the relief rolls, and when the Government refused they moved into the post office and camped there and announced that they would remain until something was done. Battling as they retreated through the galleries, the man smashed the fixtures, hurled stones and tore pictures from the walls.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 13887, 21 June 1938, Page 5
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