The Archive · 1936

Parliament Taken by

Edmonton, Alberta, July 6

Furnishing a climax to a sudden and unauthorized parade through the streets of the city, more than 1,000 single unemployed men silently took possession of three floors of the parliamentary building here to-day. A spokesman for the group. told 'amicers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police that they would remain in the building until the government] had extended more work or more adequate relief. Some of the group advocated doubling relief allotments, Four policemen were placed guard on each floor. They did not attempt to force the demonstrators to leave.

Later, the demonstrators, unable to present their grievances to the Minis ter of Public Works, who was out of the city, quietly "departed—from the parliamentary" buflding—United Press.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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