Jim Sinclair speaks about Slim Adams who organized the first on to Ottawa trek that ended in brutality with police giving bullets instead of bread to the trekkers in Regina. Demands were "work and wages" including 50 cents a day instead of the 20 cents paid at work camps under brutal conditions. Such as no compensation for injury or at least first aid equipment that did not exist to treat work related trauma, long hours, severe punishments and poor quality nutrition. In that day if you were unemployed, you didn't have the vote; as if it accounts for anything with all capitalist parties being the same. Unemployed men were "escorted" to work camps by the police. Bering unemployed meant that you were no longer a citizen of your own country; such is capitalist "justice" and "equality" under the law. The unemployed marched in the streets and occupied the Carnegie Library. When the police threatened to pull them out, the leader of the Longshoreman's union from Balantyne pier organized about 1500 longshoremen to stop the police and did so. The Conservative government was subsequently crushed in the following election. When the economy sours due to the gambling of the rich, it is the poor and unemployed that are punished as the unemployment is considered a crime. UI used to cover almost everyone since the 1940's, but now only covers 40 percent; the rest just have to find something else in this day of corporate bailouts and corporate welfare. Government representatives live on ...