Prince Rupert Daily News, 20 June 1938, p. 1: Premier Pattullo in Vancouver after the eviction

Read from the archive's OCR text on 10 Oct 2026. The OCR runs the page's columns into one another; the sentences below are put back together from it, and a word that could not be recovered is shown as [...]. A Canadian Press report from Vancouver, the day after Bloody Sunday:

Premier T. D. Pattullo [arrived] here by plane today from Victoria to find the city quiet after the day of rioting and disturbance. Mr. Pattullo said that the Government was not going to be frightened into changing its unemployment policy by the invasion of the Capital by the jobless. The jobless now in Victoria, the Premier said, could stay there but [...] fashion. Mr. Pattullo said that he had been the prime mover in securing the Sunday eviction of the men from the Post Office and Art Gallery. [...] more demonstrations like the last one were not going to be allowed.

What it shows: Duff Pattullo's own claim, the day after, to have been "the prime mover in securing" the eviction of the sit-down men on Sunday 19 June 1938. It agrees with the Commons record, where the federal government authorized the clearing of the post office and J. S. Woodsworth reported "some request from the premier of British Columbia" (House of Commons Debates, 23 May, 6 June and 20 June 1938: the Vancouver sit-down and its eviction). See the thread Duff Pattullo, 22nd Premier of British Columbia: what did he get right, and what did he get wrong?.