LABOUR TROUBLES.
FIFTEEN FACTORIES CLOSED. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Loudon. December 21. Fifteen factories in Dundee have closed, owing to shortage of coal. Hooligans were chiefly responsible for the. disorder. GENERAL LOCK-OUT OF WEAVERS FEARED. A campaign in tho Lancashire cotton area against non-unionists culminated in a strike of weavers at one of tho Accrington mills. The masters _in North and North-east Lancashire aro to meet to decide the courso of action. A general lock-out of 100,000 is fearea. WHAT A BALLOT OF MINERS MAY MEAN. (Received December 22, 10.30 a.m.) I ( . London, December 21. The conference of miners resolved to hold a ballot on January 10, and if a two-thirds majority "of members favour a strike, work will be stopped at the end of February.
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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1677, 22 December 1911, Page 2
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