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On to Ottawa Trek
By the time the trekkers reached Regina, Bennett decided it was time to put an end to this "insurrection". The CPR was ordered to ban the trekkers as "trespassers".
The federal cabinet directed the RCMP to bolster troops in Regina to disperse the trekkers.
Meanwhile, the trekkers met with government ministers in Regina, who proposed that a small delegation continue to Ottawa. A public meeting of the trekkers voted to send eight members
to Ottawa, including Arthur Evans.
This delegation met with Bennett on June 22. Bennett called the strike a revolution, whose purpose was to destroy law and order. Evans presented the strikers' demands, but the meeting
disintegrated into a heated exchanges with Bennett calling Evans a thief, and Evans calling Bennett a liar. Negotiations ended.
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