| Bloody Sunday |
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A plainclothes Mountie clubbing protesters leaving the post office |
| Date | 19 June 1938 |
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| Resulted in | No concessions given |
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Relief Project Workers' Union |
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| Injuries | 100 injured (43 hospitalized) |
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Bloody Sunday was the conclusion of a month-long "sitdowners' strike" by unemployed men at the main post office in Vancouver, British Columbia. It was Depression-era Vancouver's final violent clash between unemployed protesters and police that provoked widespread criticism of police brutality.