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Plainclothes mountie cracking heads at the 1938 sitdowners strike of the unemployed protest in Vancouver, Canada. Taken from the Vancouver Public Library, Special Collections online database: here


Police evict Post Office sit in demonstrators with tear gas VPL Accession Number: 1313 Date: 1938 Photographer/Studio: Province Newspaper Content Notes: Post office and Art Gallery sit down strike, May and June 1938 - Policemen and R.C.M.P. evicting demonstrators from Post Office with tear gas. Format: Source negative (10x13 cm)

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Public domain This Canadian work is in the public domain in Canada because its copyright has expired due to one of the following:
1. it was subject to Crown copyright and was first published more than 50 years ago, or

it was not subject to Crown copyright, and

2. it is a photograph that was created prior to January 1, 1949, or
3. the creator died more than 50 years ago.
Please see en:WP:PD#Canadian images: Yousuf Karsh

Photograph originally published in the Vancouver Daily Province - not published in the United States, therefore not subject to US copyright

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