CLASH IN VANCOUVER
UNEMPLOYED AND POLICE SIT-DOWN STRIKERS EJECTED BY TEAR GAS. PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND SHOPS. DAMAGED. VANCOUVER, June 19. ' Angry relief men who had been 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 fifty were injured. Royal Canadian Mounted Police assisted the local police against unemployed demonstrators in a two hours’ fight in the streets in which damage estimated at 200,00 dollars was done. The Post Office, Art Gallery and a score of shops were wrecked. The men last month demanded that the Government 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 f done. Battling as they retreated through ■ the galleries, the men smashed fixtures, hurled stones and tore pictures > from the walls.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 June 1938, Page 10
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