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- On-to-Ottawa bidaia (ingelesez: On-to-Ottawa Trek) 1935ean milaka langabetuk zelai-federalen egoera tamalgarria salatzeko Ottawara egin zuten bidai luzeari deitzen zaio. horiek Kanadako mendebalde urrunean zauden eta Depresio Handiaren garaian eraiki ziren, lana eta janariaren trukean, gizon langabetuak eta ezkongabeak aterpetzeko. (eu)
- The On-to-Ottawa Trek was a mass protest movement in Canada in 1935 sparked by unrest among unemployed single men in federal relief camps principally in Western Canada. Federal relief camps were brought in under Prime Minister R. B. Bennett’s government as a result of the Great Depression. The Great Depression crippled the Canadian economy and left one in nine citizens on relief. The relief, however, did not come free; the Bennett government ordered the Department of National Defence to organize work camps where single unemployed men were used to construct roads and other public works at a rate of twenty cents per day. The men in the relief camps were living in poor conditions with very low wages. The men decided to unite and, in 1933, led by Arthur "Slim" Evans, created the Workers' Unity League (WUL). The Workers' Unity League helped the men organize the Relief Camp Workers' Union. A strike was held in December 1934 with the men leaving the various camps and protesting in Vancouver, British Columbia. After a two-month protest, they returned to the camps after a promise of a government commission to look into their complaints. When a commission was not appointed a second strike was approved by the members and a walkout was called on April 4, 1935. About 1,000 strikers headed for Ottawa. The strikers' demands were: “(1) that work with wages be instituted at a minimum of 50cents per hour for unskilled workers and trade union rates for skilled labour on the basis of a six-hour day, a five-day week with a minimum of twenty work days per month; (2) that all workers in the camps be covered by the Workmen's Compensation Act and that adequate first aid supplies be carried on the jobs at all times; (3) that the National Defence and all military control with the system of blacklisting be abolished; (4) that democratically elected committees be recognized in every camp; (5) that there be instituted a system of noncontributory unemployment insurance; (6) that all workers be given their democratic right to vote; (7) that Section 98 of the Criminal Code, Sections 41 and 42 of the Immigration Act and all vagrancy laws and anti-working class laws be repealed”. Public support for the men was enormous, but the municipal, provincial and federal governments passed responsibility between themselves. They then decided to take their grievances to the federal government. On June 3, 1935, hundreds of men began boarding boxcars headed east in what became known as the "On-to-Ottawa Trek". (en)
- La Marche sur Ottawa désigne un ensemble de manifestations et d'occupations de « chômeurs » et grévistes dans l'Ouest canadien précédant l' du 1er juillet 1935. La marche n'est jamais parvenue à Ottawa. Débutant en avril 1935 dans les Camps de secours pour les chômeurs en Colombie-Britannique , le mouvement de grève se répand rapidement à Vancouver. Le 3 juin, les organisateurs de la Ligue d'unité ouvrière, syndicat communiste qui organise les milliers de grévistes, décident de déplacer la grève à Ottawa pour faire pression sur le gouvernement Bennet. Utilisant le train pour voyager, les manifestants traversent Calgary, Medicine Hat, Swift Current et Moose Jaw avant d'être violemment réprimés par la police et la Gendarmerie royale du Canada à Regina alors que la marche était déclarée illégale par le ministre de la Justice Hugh Guthrie. (fr)
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- On-to-Ottawa bidaia (ingelesez: On-to-Ottawa Trek) 1935ean milaka langabetuk zelai-federalen egoera tamalgarria salatzeko Ottawara egin zuten bidai luzeari deitzen zaio. horiek Kanadako mendebalde urrunean zauden eta Depresio Handiaren garaian eraiki ziren, lana eta janariaren trukean, gizon langabetuak eta ezkongabeak aterpetzeko. (eu)
- La Marche sur Ottawa désigne un ensemble de manifestations et d'occupations de « chômeurs » et grévistes dans l'Ouest canadien précédant l' du 1er juillet 1935. La marche n'est jamais parvenue à Ottawa. (fr)
- The On-to-Ottawa Trek was a mass protest movement in Canada in 1935 sparked by unrest among unemployed single men in federal relief camps principally in Western Canada. Federal relief camps were brought in under Prime Minister R. B. Bennett’s government as a result of the Great Depression. The Great Depression crippled the Canadian economy and left one in nine citizens on relief. The relief, however, did not come free; the Bennett government ordered the Department of National Defence to organize work camps where single unemployed men were used to construct roads and other public works at a rate of twenty cents per day. The men in the relief camps were living in poor conditions with very low wages. The men decided to unite and, in 1933, led by Arthur "Slim" Evans, created the Workers' Unity (en)
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