DUNDEE RIOTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 9, 21 December 1911, Page 6

DUNDEE RIOTS.

INDUSTRY PARALYSED. (Received 21, 10.55 a.in.) London, December 20. Twenty thousand mill workers at Dundee have been thrown idle. The strikers are attacking lorries, one being thrown into ,t lie dock to-day. The mill lassies are overturning call carts. 'Pile military are quartered at the Drill Hall, hut ‘have not yet been called out for duty. SOL I) lERS i)ES RATCHET). London, December 2th The Dundee carters demand a minimum wage of £1 8s 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. lom 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.