<P> About 1,000 strikers headed for Ottawa . The strikers ' demands were wages of 50 cents an hour for unskilled work , union wages for skilled , and at least 120 hours of work a month ; the provision of adequate first aid equipment in the camps ; the extension of the Workmen 's Compensation Act to include camp workers ; recognition of democratically elected workers ' committees ; that workers in camps be granted the right to vote in elections ; and the camps be removed from the purview of the Department of National Defence . 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 would become known as the `` On - to - Ottawa Trek . '' </P>
<P> About 1,000 strikers headed for Ottawa . The strikers ' demands were wages of 50 cents an hour for unskilled work , union wages for skilled , and at least 120 hours of work a month ; the provision of adequate first aid equipment in the camps ; the extension of the Workmen 's Compensation Act to include camp workers ; recognition of democratically elected workers ' committees ; that workers in camps be granted the right to vote in elections ; and the camps be removed from the purview of the Department of National Defence . 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 would become known as the `` On - to - Ottawa Trek . '' </P>
where was the on to ottawa trek stopped
where was the on to ottawa trek stopped
Ottawa
Ottawa