HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 150, 21 December 1911, Page 5

HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTING.

BETWEEN" WORKERS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyrigii Lond«n, December 19. There was hand-to-hand righting at Dundee between workers and striking dockers and carters. The police, though reinforced from Glasgow and Edinburgh, were unable to control the rioters, who were joined by the mill workers, the latter being unemployed owing to the stoppage of the cartage of coal and jute. The strikers threw a lorry into the dock. The police made baton charges, several strikers being wounded. The Lord Provost asked the Government for three hundred troops. DESPATCH OK TROOPS. TOM MANX PROTESTS. Received 20, 0.25 p.m. London. December 20. The Dundee carters demand a minimum wage of £1 3s weekly, and the dockers an advance of Id an hour. All smaller firms conceded the demands. The railway companies and large firms refused. Troops have been despatched to Dundee. Tom Mann protested to Lord Haldane, Minister for War, against the use of troops, the presence of which, he said, was calculated to incite disorder. The Strike Committee guarantee order if they are recalled.