EXTENSIVE STRIDE THREATENED.
PROBABLE LOOK-OUT OF COTTON OPERATIVES.
. THE DUNDEE STRIKE
Per ■.-Press Association—Copyright. >. ! ■'■/■'■'.■■■■. '■■ . ..LONEK}N;,;'l)€cember-21.:;!-/ Fifteen factories m Dundee ' have closed, owing; to shortage of coal. Hooligans are chiefly 'responsible for disorder. The. campaign m the Lancashire cotton area against non-unionists culminated m a strike of weavers m one of the Acrington , mills. The masters m 'North and North-east Lancashire will meet *to decide a course of action. A general lock-out of * one hundred thousand is feared. A miners' conference, representing seven hundred thousand members, is discussing the question of a minimum wage. Delegates from South Wales, Northumberland, and Scotland favour a national strike. The militant section has increased, and is believed to be strong enough to reverse the November decision against a strike.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXII, Issue 8256, 22 December 1911, Page 5
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124EXTENSIVE STRIDE THREATENED. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXII, Issue 8256, 22 December 1911, Page 5
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