Vancouver Province, editorial, 20 June 1938 (excerpt)

Excerpted in the BC Labour Heritage Centre’s lesson “Bloody Sunday” (Working People: A History of Labour in BC), read 10 Oct 2026:

But the strikers can by no means be condemned alone. They were foolish and ill-advised. They may even have yielded to agitators as Premier Pattullo suggests. But who zealously prepared the ground in which the seeds of the agitators took root? Who but the two responsible governments—the one in Ottawa and the one in Victoria, which have, for months now, keep the question of unemployment shuttling back and forth between the two capitals. The record is about as bad as it could be. The two governments have been faithless to the unemployed, faithless to the cause of good government in Canada. The Federal Government tried to persuade the men that there would be work for them if they would only leave British Columbia; the Provincial Government offered to assist them on their way. But neither government thought it worthwhile to suggest to the men where work was to be found. And the men, not unnaturally, thought they were being hoaxed, and refused to move…

What it shows: the verdict of one of Vancouver’s daily papers the morning after: both governments to blame. See pattullo-bloody-sunday.