DISORDER IN CANADA.
UNEMPLOYED AND POLICE IN CONFLICT. PREMIER CALLS OUT MILITIA DETACHMENT. MEN HELD IN BARRACKS. United press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. (Received Sunday, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, June 13. A message from Edmonton (Alberta) states that following on the seizure of civic buildings and the looting of stores by unemployed, allegedly under Communistic influence, the Premier (Mr. Brownlee) called out a militia detachment of the Strathcona Horse, which was rushed in a special train from Calgary and held in barracks. A score of unemployed invaded the restaurants, refusing to pay after securing meals. They were arrested. A mob stormed the police headquarters in an attempt to release them. It was cowed and dispersed, however, by repeated police charges. TOWN COUNCIL ARRESTED. At Drumheller, Alberta, the whole Town Council was arrested on the complaint of men out of work and charged with failing to provide for the unemployed as provided by the Criminal Code. Canadian law stipulates that it shall be the duty of civic bodies “to make suitable provision for the poor and destitute.”
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Wairarapa Age, 15 June 1931, Page 5
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