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Raging strikers ride the rails in protest
In June 1935 about 1 200 relief camp strikers arrived in Medicine Hat after a brutal rail journey from Calgary to Ottawa bound protests. The march grew to 1 300 as it moved east with protests spreading through Vancouver Regina and beyond. Police clashed with protesters on Dominion Day leaving one officer dead and many injured.
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