London, Dec. 21.
The first shot in the Lancashi labour dispute has been fired at Accrington, where a mill stopped working last 1g owing to the refusal of the hands to work with two non-unier The Employers' Association is to meet to-morrow to consider the situation. A lock-out involving 100,000 persons is expected.
Serious rioting is reported in Dandee where the carters and dockers are on strike. A lorry has been thrown into the river and there have been police charges on the mob.
Contingents of the Glasgow and Edinburgh police have arrived on the scene, and three hundred soldiers have been ordered to
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