Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1903-01-07

Oct. Pres. Roosevelt invites operators
white house means of ending strike.
s-At white house conference Mitchelrs
Roosevelt rejected By operators. who de-
mand troops to enable reopening OF
'S-Gov. Stone (Pa) orders out entire mill
tary force for service in anthracite coal
-7-Mitchell refuses Pres Roosevelts re-
quest TO end strike promise that a
national commission would investigate
miners grievances Immediately.
do-At conference in New York between
Coy. Odell. U. S. Senators Plat. Quay
and Penrose. operators refuse to con-
cede 5 cents ton advance and recog-
milton of union.
1S-y p. Morgan proposes to Pres. Roose-
welt on behalf OF operators to submit
be named by president.
15-strike ends. President Roo~e-
welt names arbitration commits
sioni Brig. Gem John NJ. Wilson.
Judge Geo. Gray. T.. f.. Clark, Rt.
Rev. John l.. spaldinE, Thos. IL.
Watkins and Carroll ID. Wright.
2l-Miners convention at Wilkesbarre.
Pa. unanimously voted to end strike.
-A-Strike commission organizes with
Judge Gray. chairman.
Nov. 5-Commission ends inspection of
mines having examined of them.
u-Coal operators file answer to demands
of miners. and reiterate that there will
be no recognition of United Mine Work
.-ers of America.
2o-Attempt to reach agreement outside of
arbitration commission blocked by indie
Dec. accumulation resumes Investigation
after 10 days recess TO allow disputants
TO get together.
O-Commission adjourns until JAMS
Orbsr IndasTriaI EvsnEI.
Jan: 24-Pres Mitchell. of United Mine
Workers OF America reelected. Ohio
supreme court decided in blacklist"
or discharge men cannot be questioned
and that his motives cannot be consid-
Feb. Miners delegates at INDIANAPOLIS
adopted wage scale already in force in
a41Big combine of transatlantic steam
- ship lines formed.
folk. Va, to suppress rioting in connec-
ton with street railway strike.
iomA atoo1i. general Knox Institutes
gal northwestern railroad merger and
to dissolve Northern Securities Co.
coal miners strike.
S-Strike in wooden mills in Mass. and
other states paralyzes wool market.
23-Firemen and dockhands of tugs on
great lakes strike.
May 1-Amalgamated association in ses-
sion at Wheeling. w. Va, rejects The
o odore Shaffer president Ind. supreme
granted by U. s. court in Chicago pre-
venting operations under alleged trust
June 4-Strike OF Chicago packing house
and department store drivers compro-
-
cago packers enjoined from doing bust
ness in New York state in violation of
1l-strike Of, AnIs-Chalmers employees,
1,o which hraon had lasted d,, year year. settled
n. j. to prevent riots by strikers
Jul 1-International Order of MachinIsts
serve notice on western railroads to
pay union scale and observe 9-hour day.
H2-In Chicago 1900 teamsters sympathiz-
ing with 5000 striking freight handlers
Aug. several funerals turned back
from n Chicago cemetery on account
of strike of grave diggers for more paw
7 :...l;DO Chicago boilermakers strike
us-Internationai Typographical union in
session at Cincinnati makes maximum
working hours per week s. Golden iu-
= bilee of union celebrated.
Sep. 1.Laber day generally observed in
local miners strike in Kanawha and
New River fields. w. Va. involving Is. :
o4o men; which began June T. ended
Firemen's Brotherhood at Chattanoo-
ga and is made an honorary member
themselves to marry only members of
labor unions Lead manufacturers
combine at New York; capital. $50 o0o.-
Oct. 1-Ship combine files incorporat,on
papers at Trenton. n. j., for si2O 900, 900
a2-New Orleans street railway strikers
accept uitimatum OF 20 cents an hour
with 10 hours maximum work.
13-Minneapols flour mills change from
,.two 12-hour shifts to S-hour schedule
d7-U. S. Packing Co Understood to be
the beer Gombine) Incorporated at Tren-
Nov. oo-Pres Gompers. at New Orleans
convention OF Am. Federation OF Labor.
tt 1sde ,,.e OF charges OF infdeuty to
Dec 15-Notice served by 5000 Pullman
III car shop employees OF refusal to work
Sundays hereafter.