Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Civic, provincial, federal officials "passed the buck" to each other while Vancouver's liberal societies demanded work for the men, the Y. M. C. A. provided daily "delousings," women's organizations fed the sit-downers, most of Vancouver showed sympathy...
...them by announcing that "this sort of thing must stop." The Dominion Government asked Vancouver city authorities to take action, lent a detachment of red-tunicked Royal Canadian Mounted Police to assist the khaki-clad provincial police and blue-coated city constables in an evacuation. Premier Pattullo gave the sit-downers until 4 a.m. June 19 to move...
...zero hour the sit-downers were still sitting. Police threw tear gas bombs into the two buildings, charged with swinging batons, swung their fists, used stinging riding whips on squatters who showed fight. As the rabble army fled toward Vancouver's poor but sympathetic East End, they picked up post office inkwells and pieces of metalwork, hurled them at department-store windows. Damage was estimated at $50,000, 40 sit-downers and police had to be hospitalized. Among the most seriously hurt was a former Communist leader, Steve Brodie, now styled as secretary of the Single Unemployed Protective Association...
While Premier Pattullo was challenged to resign and stand in a by-election on the unemployment issue, the sit-downers crossed Burrard Inlet by boat, hitchhiked or rode the rods to descend on the dignified, heavily policed little capital city of Victoria, on the southeast tip of Vancouver Island...
...Picked six representatives from the executive branch to sit on the temporary National Economic Committee (Monopoly Investigation) with six representatives of the legislative branch, picked last fortnight...