Excerpts from Steve Brodie’s
story of the 1938 post office
sitdown by single unemployed

Background, page 18
The Art Gallery
occupation, page 19

Excerpted from Fighting Heritage, ©
Tribune Publishing Co. Ltd., 1985.

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RCMP officers club jobless as tear gas
forces them out of the post office.
Money order wicket (facing page)
symbolizes single unemployed relief
during 30-day occupation.

PHOTOS — VANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY

16 Pacific Tribune, April 27, 1988