Page Four ZRSSES3; SDanelinseiny sh ADVOCATE diene June 24, i938 ~ Eye Witness Accounts Men Relate Own Story Of Attack By JACK UNSWORTH HE first intimation those of us in the post office received of the attack was when pickets on duty outside reported that two carloads of RCMP had driven in behind the building. This T was at 4:30 a.m. The sleeping men were aroused and dressed us to be as orderly as possible. We voted unanimously against evacuation. At 4:40 city police began to con- centrate outside the post office and at 5 am the postmaster, accom- panied by RCMP officers, told us he had received instructions from Ottawa to evict us. He advised us that we would be given 20 minutes to leave. Brodie asked the RCMP what would happen if we refused to leave and was told that the police would resort to teargas. Brodie Police Clubbed Men Mercilessly in a few minutes, Steve Brodie addressed us, asking then asked if we could be placed under mass arrest, but this was refused. We spent the next 20 minutes Singing our union songs. At the end of this time the postmaster gave us another ten minutes to get out. We sat tight and at 5:30 the first barrage of teargas bombs came over the partition. A group of ap- proximately 30 men immediately dashed outside to be met with po- lice batons and rubber hose wielded by both city police and RCMP. The second barrage of bombs forced the men to break the windows to allow the gas to escape. By this time the building was half emptied. After a third barrage only a handful of us were left, including myself and Brodie. RCMP came from behind the wickets clubbing us and driving us outside. Brodie was a marked man and even before he had got out of the doorway he had been clubbed to the ground by half a dozen batons. He staggered into the middle of the street, the blood streamin: down his face, and was again elubbed down. The RCMP gave the men no Quarter. A first-aid man kneeling beside an injured man was clubbed from behind, despite the fact that he wore a conspicuous red cross band on his arm. Meanwhile, behind the Royal Ventilation Closed In Gallery Bank Building, another battle was in progress. Here the police re- ceived the worst of it. One motor-— eycle policeman who was lashing out with his club was struck in the melee and went down. I did mot see what happened to him, as just at that moment I was struck by a club myself. I was Knocked to the ground, dazed, and lay there until the police had passed on.. Men ran up fire escapes and over roofs, closely pursued. by police, who droye them eastward alone Hastings and Cordova streets to Carroll. Here we fell in behind the boys from the art gallery who were marching in orderly fashion to the Ukrainian Labor Temple. By REGINALD MOSHER Aeon 9 oclock I was awakened by one of the pickets who told me the police had come to evict us. I got up im- mediately and while I was dressing the police unlocked the chain on the iron gates and entered. I awoke some of the boys and we assembled at pre-arranged stations along the walls. My own station was in the back room. I heard somebody reading out an eviction order to the effect that we had 20 minutes to get out. | A vote was talen on this and we decided to stay. We stated, how- ever, that we would submit to mass arrest. This was refused and after the 20 minutes had passed the frst teargas bomb was thrown inside. We held our ground until we could bear it no longer. There are no windows in the art gallery and the skylights had been closed by a man on the roof. Right up to the last we preserved Brodie Attacked By Several Police our discipline, adhering strictly to Our decision to harm none of the paintings. Harold Winch told me that he entered the gallery after we had been evicted and satisfied himself that no damage had been done. Many of the boys were feeling the effects of the gas, particularly those who had colds. Some were sick. The police followed us all the way down town to our union head- quarters at 60 East Cordova street where we found that teargas bombs had also been thrown. By JAMES HERE were between twenty and thirty of us crowded under the windows of the of the post office when the RCMP charged us from behind the wickets, swinging their clubs. Having no weapons ourselves, we S were forced to retreat through the doors. About a dozen policemen were standing outside in the vesti- bule waiting to club us as we came through. I was lucky. I got several clubs over my shoulders, but managed to avoid the blows aimed at my head. When I got through the police cordon in the vestibule I found mmyself facing another semi-circle of city police waiting outside to take their whack at us. I managed to get past them and over to the drug store at the corner of Hastings and Granyille. f turned | around just in time to see Steve | | | / Brodie standing in the doorway of the post office with several police attacking him. He was trying to get on to the street, but there were at least a dozen police surrounding him and beating him with theic DAWSON. Hastings and Granville corner elubs. die broke through and staggered into the middle of the road where he was again knocked down by two, plainclothesmen and three city police. They would have continued beating him as he lay on the street, his sweater almost torn from his back and the blood running down his face, if a few onlookers had not rushed over and forced a city sergeant to stop them. Brodie was still lying prostrate in the middle of the road when one of the division leaders and myself, as a first-aid man, went over to him, lifted him up and carried him over to the corner. Here I bandaged his head as best I could. A man passing by in a ear offered to take him to hospital where, I heard later, he had six >) Nanaimo Welcomes Single Jobless} pe sig Ay tats Pcie re pl edk at News From Provincial Centres fe Pah & ei Service May Burn Slash And Gperators Will Be Charged, Manning Hints NANAIMO, BC, June 23.— The recent 4,000-acre fire in the Quali- cum area was caused by ten-year- old unburned Slash, and there will be many more similar forest fires unless logging operators undertake to burn slashings as they loz. E. GC. Manning, chief forester of BG, not only told this at a public meeting held here in Bagies Hall last Fri- day, but declared that if operators failed in their duty the forestry. Service would burn slashings and eharge it up to them. Manning complained that his limited staff could not keep up with operators who ignored public interest, and for this reason the public could expect a number of Iajor fires in a number of places On Vancouver Island. In 15 years, 91 percent of the total acreage burned was started in Slashing, he said. it could all be done at a cost of 10 cents per thousand board foot, Manning stated, adding that Wash- ington operators had proven this. 2000 Attend Capital Meet Nigel Morgan Raps Government Policy VICTORIA, BC, June 23. — Two thousand people attended an open- air meeting here at Gentral Pari: Monday night to hear sitdowners’ leaders give the facts on Sunday’s police attack and to rally support for a public works program. Colin Cameron, MILA for Comox, deseribed the Vancouver beatings as “one of the most tragic occur- rences in the history of the prov- ince.” We declared that he fully supported the demand of his CCE colleagues that the government go to the people on the vital question of work and wages and the methods of handling the unem- ployed. W. Atkinson, secretary of the United Mine Workers’ Union, pledged the support of 2000 Island miners in the struggle for a works program, stating that none knew better than miners the misery at- tending unemployment. Bert Flatt, one of the sitdowners, announced plans of the Women’s Emergeney Committee to do the collecting and provide necessities for the men. “We must hold the fort until reinforcements come from Vancouver to press the goy- ernment for our right to work,’ he said. Wigel Morgan, former CGF can- didate, and prominent in the Vic- toria youth movement, pledged sup- port from organizations he repre- Sented. He stated that the govern- ment must face the fact business indices were down and that jobs were simply not available. The youth leader raised a laugh when he declared he had found the Spanish equivalent of Pattullo to be “I trample.” David Ross, provincial organizer of. the Relief Project Workers’ Union, was chairman of the meeting. Pave Main Streets PRINCE GEORGE, BC, June 23. —wWork of laying 350 feet of con- crete sidewalks on the two main streets here has been completed. Two-thirds of the cost of the pro- ject was met by ratepayers through stitches in his head. a cooperative scheme. Logging Czar Hit ‘More Influence Than Any Gov t Over Workers’ Lives’ —Colin Cameron, MLA COURTENAY, BC, June 23.—R. J. Filberg, virtual owner of Comox Logging Company and reputed ezar of this district, was described by Colin Came being “a man who has more influence over the lives and welfare of his employees than any government.” made before Associated Boards of Trade of Wancouver Island when they met in convention recently. Cameron declared he attended. the convention principally to hear what Filbere and EF. D. Mulholland of the provincial department of forestry had to say on the future of the logging industry in BC. Since forty percent of the economic life of the province depended on the forests and allied trades, it be- came a matter of public concern, Cameron stated. Mailholland maintained that the time was rapidly coming when BC forests would be measured in cu- bical content rather than board feet, and that smaller trees would be used on a large seale for pulp and fabricated lumber. Services of scientific foresters must be utilized by the government, he said, to ren (CCE, Comox-Alberni) as This statement was >combat present wasteful methods. Contrasting logging methods of BC with other countries, Mulhol- land stated that in Scandinavian countries farmers owned much of the forest land, and had turned it to good account by supplying the pulp mills with usable lumber. Long ago their virgin forests had been exhausted but they still main- tained timber as a merchantable product, he declared, BC standing an even better chance because of its greater rainfall which made tree growth twice as rapid. Filberg confined his address to costs of logging. He complained that the government collected $3,000,000 a year in taxes from logging. Diminutive Greatheart A. F’. Wilbee, Senior, Star Salesman For Advocate By WM. Warm-hearted, diminutive A. F. Wilbee is going to bed these nights a very tired, but happy man. more than twice the energy of himself, and happy as he feels he is doing his bit for the under dogs. S Quaint, yes, but with a heart out of all proportion to the size of his wiry body. Wis personal slogan, “With malice toward none,’ Wilbee nevertheless has a biting tongue and tireless cam- paigning enersy against wrong in high places. Hundreds greet him warmly on the street every day. He sells more than a hundred copies of the Advocate every week, rain or Shine, and this week he sold 150 A. F. Wilbee of the “Bloody Sunday” extra edition. He tells the editorial staff that more and more Vancouver people look for the Advocate as the paper which gives facts and a strong lead on all important ques- tions. Wilbee wants to double, treble Minto Seeking School Change MINTO, BC, June 23-Rate- payers held a meeting here re- cently to seek reorganization of school districts affected by tax- free lands held by Ganadian Col- lieries. Because of the increasingly heavy tax burden, ratepayers have grown restless over the privileges given this powerful company. Colin Cameron, MLA, has promised to approach other Island school boards on the question with a view to adjustment. SEMI-DISPLAY CLASSIFIED BILLiARDs MT. PLEASANT BILLIARD HALL and BARBER SHCGP Everything in Smokers’ Supplies Cigars Cigarettes Pipes Lighters — Etc. 2341 MAIN STREET CAFES - Union House -. - The EAST END CAFE Serving the Very Best Food at Low Prices. . Try us. Open till 1 a-m. 601 EAST HASTINGS STREET Bich. 6111 DRUGS fl Tel. 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He told me of his sales- manship at home in addition to his Street sales. “Tf all our readers will get next to their friends on morning deliy— ery wagons alone and either sell every week, the sales would go up quickly,” he said. “I have no trouble to explain the value of the Advocate to the milkman and the baker. They wouldn’t be without the paper now.” The reason he carries all those slogans with him is because even his active brain and tongue mus tbe covered in his daily cru- sade against injustice and poverty. them subs or see they get a copy : couldn’t cover the ground he feels | MinersGive | Unemployed — Use Of Hall Citizens [ine Strects In Thousands, Donate Food, Money When Men Arrive. $243 COLLECTED NANAIMO, BC, June 23— (Special) — Thousands of citi- zens crowded on to the dock and lined the streets here to welcome the 200 single unem- ployed men who arrived on the Princess Elaine Monday eve- ning prepared, if necessary, to march the 80 miles to Victoria. The men lined up on the dock and marched to the United Mine Workers’ hall to the familiar Strains of “Hold the Fort’ as on- lookers waved and cheered. The scheduled lacrosse game drew only. a few people as virtually the whole population of Nanaimo, agoe with talk of Sunday’s attack on the jobless, turned out to see the men. Speakers welcomed the men at a meeting later, offering them the use of the UMW=A hall for the night. Citizens donated food and cigarettes and a collection of $34 and a further $243 was collected by the men themselves in a can- Vass of the downtown area. Members of the Women’s Labor Deague and other women sym- pathizers were active in the boys’ behalf, Worman Harris, leader of the contingent, told the Advocate that the *men were prepared to march to Victoria, if transportation were not available. A local garage own- er, however, was quick to offer to transport the single unemployed to the capital. 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