Today in Labor History June 19, 1938: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and Vancouver cops attacked strikers with tear gas and clubs on Bloody Sunday. Over 100 were injured, with over 43 hospitalized. The strikers were primarily unemployed men, affiliated with the Communist Party. They had been on strike for months and had occupied hotels, the Vancouver art gallery, and post office. Events began on May 20, when 500 unemployed workers began a sit-down strike in the Hotel Georgia, in Vancouver, British Columbia. In early ’38, the government had cut grants to the provinces. As a result, many of the relief camps shut down and jobs dried up. In response, protesters occupied the Hotel Georgia, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the main post office beginning on May 20. They were led by communist organizers. The owner of the hotel refused to call the cops, fearing major property damage in the melee that would ensue. So, he bribed the men to leave. However, those in the post office and art gallery remained for weeks.

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Today in Labor History May 20, 1938: 500 unemployed workers began a sit-down strike in the Hotel Georgia, in Vancouver, British Columbia. Unemployed men had been drifting to British Columbia during the Depression because of the milder climate and relatively better pay in the forestry camps. In early ’38, the government had cut grants to the provinces. As a result, many of the relief camps shut down and jobs dried up. In response, protesters occupied the Hotel George, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the main post office beginning on May 20. They were led by communist organizers. The owner of the hotel refused to call the cops, fearing major property damage in the melee that would ensue. So, he bribed the men to leave. However, those in the post office and art gallery remained for weeks.

The conflict culminated on Bloody Sunday (June 19), when undercover Mounties brutally beat strikers in their attempt to evict them. 42 people were hospitalized, five of whom were cops. One striker lost an eye. Those who evaded arrest, along with onlookers and supporters on the outside, then marched to the East End, smashing windows. They caused $35,000 damage.

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These Colonialist Establishment freaks keep telling us what they are, and how little our lives matter if we don't follow them on their straight path

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/02/kemi-badenoch-social-media-posts-bloody-sunday-footage

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Irish civilians being detained by British troops on Bloody Sunday, Derry, Northern Ireland, UK, 1972

https://piefed.social/c/historyphotos/p/1900434/irish-civilians-being-detained-by-british-troops-on-bloody-sunday-derry-northern-irelan

March 7, 1965 - 525 civil rights advocates began a 54-mile march on a Sunday morning from Selma, Alabama, to the capital of Montgomery, to promote voting rights for blacks. Just after crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the outskirts of Selma, the marchers were attacked in what became known as Bloody Sunday.

Enforcing an order by Governor George Wallace, the group was broken up by state troopers and volunteer officers of the Dallas County sheriff who used tear gas, nightsticks, bullwhips and rubber tubing wrapped in barbed wire. John Lewis, then head of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and a leader of the march, suffered a fractured skull.

ABC television interrupted a Nazi war crimes drama, “Judgment at Nuremberg,” to show footage of the violence in Selma, confusing some viewers about who was beating whom.

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