The Archive · 1938

Premier Assumes Responsibility Vancouver, B.C., June 20

Mr. T. D. Pattullo, Premier of British Columbia, today assumed full responsibility for the tear-gas eyictior of 1,000 unemployed demonstrators from the Federal Post Office and art gallery buildings yesterday.

Mr. Pattullo, however, said he had {got in touch" with Ottawa before Ordering Royal Canadian Mountec Police and Vancouver police to oust the "sit-inners."

"The 100 men who went to Victoria today will not be allowed to camp on the steps of Parliamentary buildings,"

Second "Battle" Fought Ending a wild 24 hours of rioting, a delegation of 100 jobless Canadians, representing the unemployed of this city, sailed for Victoria today with instructions to "camp on the steps of the Parliament Building until a Federal relief programme would be 1000 unemployed men stormed the post office again, hurling stones at the windows.

Hectic free-far-alls were seen yesterday when strong squads of Royal Canadian Mounted Police and ordinary police evicted jobless Canadians from the post office and art gallery. For two hours the unemployed resisted the baton charges of the police with sticks and stones but they finally surrendered when the police resorted to tear gas, The unemployed, however, caused U.S.$200,000 damage in smashing furniture and fixings in both the post ofice and art gallery. They also smashed some 1,000 plate glass windows, rioting in the streets. More than fifty Press.

"New York Times" Comment New York, June 21.

The indictments by the Federal Grand Jury in the International Spy Ring case are described by the "New York Times" as "One of the bluntest documents castigating -a friendly nation since the World War."

Since thirteen of the accused are in Germany, the newspaper paints out, the "action of the Grand Jury appeared to be mainly a moral indictment of the German nation." it was revealed that the case was a sequel to a clue provided by keeping a close watch on. Mrs. Jessie Jordan, sentenced in Scotland for espionage, who acted as a "Post Office" between the espionage agents in America and Germany.—Reuter.

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