CANADA IN THE 1930s WordPress加拿大在上世纪30年代 WordPress.ppt

* * * BC had a warmer climate * * * City’s tar boiler/ havoc in the streets after the riot/ rioters converge on a man being grabbed by police * * On to Ottawa: Kamloops3 June, 1935 On July 1st a meeting was called at Market Square Only about 300 strikers attended - but almost 2000 people gathered. Most strikers stayed at the exhibition grounds Bennett had ordered the protest stopped - he didn’t want trouble in Ottawa. Strikers at the exhibition grounds Regina Riot:1 July, 1935 The RCMP hid in 3 vans and the Regina Police hid in a garage. At 8 p.m. a whistle blew and they charged, beginning hours of hand-to-hand fighting. In the end 1 plain clothes policeman was dead. 120 strikers were arrested. Outcome: The next day the RCMP surrounded the stadium with machine guns - strikers were cut off from food and water. The strikers called the Premier for a meeting - they were arrested but released to meet National newspapers reported the police initiated riot Premier Gardner blamed Bennett for the trouble. He ordered the men be fed and negotiated a disbandment to the strike. The men boarded trains an returned west. Bennett said, the Trek was not a mere uprising against law and order but a definite revolutionary effort on the part of a group of men to usurp authority and destroy government. - the Tories were defeated that year in the 1935 federal election. Bloody Sunday: Sit down strike, Vancouver, 1938 How are the police achieving order? End * * * * * * * * * * * * Poster = Don’t allow the links of the chain welded by “the blacksmith” to rust * Abandoned prairie farm, newspaper,engineless automobile, roasted wheat used for a hot drink, broiled chestnuts * * * * Italian Fasci - bundle of sticks with axe - Roman judicial symbol of power and strength Swastika Nationalist symbol of arrows and _____________. * * * Fable: first mice voted for black cat = Tories;next white cat = Liberals; eventually a mouse to run the gov’t. The mouse leader was called a Bolshevik and impr