Prince Rupert Daily News, 21 June 1938, p. 1: "Cannot Take Care of Canada's Unemployed, Pattullo Points Out"

Read from the archive's OCR text on 10 Oct 2026 (also the archive's object prdn:62097). The headline is garbled in the OCR ("Cannot ... Of Canada's Unemployed, Pattullo Points Out"); the subheads read "More Single Jobless Moving on Capital From Vancouver By Way of Nanaimo—Members of Mothers' Council Also Cross to Island." R. W. Campbell, "spokesman for the jobless," said 1,500 men were to be sent to Victoria "to impress demands for a relief works program on the provincial government." Then, from Canadian Press:

VICTORIA, June 21: (CP)—The provincial government is not going to do anything about unemployed who are converging upon Victoria, Premier T. D. Pattullo said last night when informed that twenty jobless had arrived at Nanaimo from Vancouver enroute here to join the one hundred who had previously arrived from Vancouver. "This is confirmation showing that ... the whole thing is organized and premeditated," the Premier said. "We have got to have a showdown. British Columbia cannot take care of unemployed from all over Canada. It is absolutely impossible."

What it shows: Duff Pattullo's public line on 20 June 1938: no concessions, a "showdown," the protest "organized and premeditated," and the men Ottawa's responsibility. See Duff Pattullo, 22nd Premier of British Columbia: what did he get right, and what did he get wrong?.