DUNDEE STRIKE RIOTS.
[By Electbic Telegraph—Copyright.] (Pbk Pkess Association.) Received December 20, at 10.25 a.m. London, December 19. There was hand-to-hand fighting at Dundee between the workers and the striking- dockers and carters.. The police, though reinforced from Glasgow and Edinburgh, were unable to control the rioters, who were joined by, millworkers, 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 < . has asked the Government for 300 troops.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10954, 20 December 1911, Page 4
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94DUNDEE STRIKE RIOTS. Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10954, 20 December 1911, Page 4
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