Hand to Hand Fighting.
SCOTTISH LABOUR WAR
[by ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.] [per press association.] (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) LONDON. December 19.
There was hand to hand fighting at Dundee, betwren workers and striking dockers and cartels. The police,though reinforced from Glasgow and Edinburgh, were unable to_ control the rioters, who were joined by mill workers, the latter being unemployed owing to the stoppage of the cartage of coal. Jute strikers threw a lorry into the dock. • The police made baton charges, several strikers being wounded. Tlie Lord Provost has asked the Government for three . hundred troops.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 December 1911, Page 3
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96Hand to Hand Fighting. Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 December 1911, Page 3
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