Coming back to the May 30 incident, Mr. McEuen said that he. had warning previous to that date that the students intended to a meeting in a school in Markham which certain resolution:
to be considered. The main resolution was to the effect that the students should assist the strikers the Japanese mills by means of beeches and the distribution of This was referred to in report tothe Council. The first warning received by witness that the students intended to carry out the terms of the resolution was. contained in the memorandum which he received from Chief, Inspector Givens, of the Criminal Intelligence Branch, on May 30, at 12.15 pin.
The students, continued Mr. Me-Euen, had done this kind of thing before. On May 24 of this year there took place the funeral of th Chinese who was killed in the mill
of students paraded through the of on May 15, and a procession Pootoo Road district. Some were taken to the Pootoo Road police station and four were detained on a charge under the Criminal Code in connexion with carrying banners and flags expressing anti japanese sympathies. There was no violence in that case, and the police were rot resisted.
Then, added Mr. McEuen, on May 1, Labour Day, application was made to him, in accordance with the provisions of a Municipal notification, for permission to hold ness declined permission, asthe meeting was to be of a political nature. A hunter of students on their, way sto the "meeting. place were stopped by the police, but as in the previously outlined instance, there was no violence. The object of the students in making these, speeches, declared witness, was to promote' sympathy with the workers in the Japanese mills. The note he received from Chief Inspec-for Givens on the 30th stated what. their object was. Witness did not know vf any other object.
In May, 1919, continued Mr. Mc-Ewen, students did similar things. 'They' made speeches in connexion with the anti japanese: movement. A number were arrested by. the Police and dealt with, but there was no violence or resistance. Details of this affair would also be found in the Police Reports of that yea Precautions Taken By Police gain referring to the May 90 affair of this year, counsel asked witness to state what precautions were taken to prevent the disorders the time, Mr. MeBuen replied that the first precaution was in connexion. with the action of the Intelligence Branch, which kept in touch with the strikers at the cotton mills and also the students. The police cal~ lected all possible information, Secondly, there was at Gordon Road Station, the Emergency Squad of 120 armed and trained Chin ready to turn out at @ more notice. Thirdly, on receiving the memo from Chief Inspector Givens on the morning of May 30, all ions were warned by telephone.
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