RIOTING IN DUNDEE.
STRIKERS.GET OUT OF HANDTROOPS ASKED FOR. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright London, December 19. There has boen hand-to-hand fighting in Dundee between tho workers and striking dockers and carters. The police were reinforced from Glasgow and Edinburgh, but were unablo to control tho rioters, who were joined by the mill-workers, unemployed, owing to the stoppage of the cartage of coal and jute. . Tho strikers threw a lorry into n dock. The police charged with batons, and several strikers worn wounded. The Lord Provost has asked the Government for three hundred troops. WHAT THE MEN AliE DEMANDING. (Rec. December '.'O, 9.2.3 p.in.) London, December 20. Tho Dundco carters demanded a minimum wngo of twenty-threo shillings weekly, and tho dockers an advance of a penny an hour. . All the smaller firms have conceded tho demands, but the railway companies and the larger firms havo refused them. Troops have been dispatcUd to Dundee. Mr. Tom }fa:n has protested to Lord Hnldnne, Secretary of Stato for War, that the use of troops is calculated to incite disorder. The Strike Committee, ho declares, will guarantee order if they a'-e recalled.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1317, 21 December 1911, Page 5
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186RIOTING IN DUNDEE. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1317, 21 December 1911, Page 5
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