page_title: Bloody Sunday (1938)
hierarchical_section_title: Bloody Sunday (1938)
caption_attribution_description: 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.
context_page_description: 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 Communist-led unemployed protesters and police that provoked widespread criticism of police brutality.
context_section_description: 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 Communist-led unemployed protesters and police that provoked widespread criticism of police brutality.
caption: A plainclothes Mountie clubbing protestors leaving the post office
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