“SIT-DOWN” STRIKERS EJECTED
TEAR GAS BOMBS USED IN VANCOUVER VANCOUVER, June 19. The angry relief men who have been engaged on a "sit-down” strike in the Art Gallery and the Post Office for nearly a month were ejected by tear gas bombs after a pitched battle with the police in which 50 persons were injured. Royal Canadian Mounted Police assisted the Vancouver police against unemployed demonstrators in a fight in the streets which lasted two hours and in which damage amounting to 200,000 dollars was done. The Post Office and Art Gallery and a score of shops were wrecked.
The men last month demanded that the Government should restore relief after they had been cut off the relief rolls.
When the Government refused they moved to the Post Office where they camped and announced that they would remain until something was done.
Fighting as they retreated through the galleries, the men smashed fixtures, hurled stones and tore pictures from the walls.
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Southland Times, Issue 23540, 21 June 1938, Page 7
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