Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-01-03


long as strike lasts.
Oct. Pres. Roosevelt invites operators
and Pres. Mitchell to discuss at the
tEAt white house conference Mitchell's
offer to accept arbitration by Pres
Roosevelt rejected by operators, who de-
mand troops to enable reopening OF
IGov. Stone Pa) orders out entire mill
tary force for service in anthracite coal
7-Mitcheu refuses Pres. Roosevelt's re-
quest to end strike promise that a
national commission would investigate
a0-At conference in NV York between
Gov. Odell. U. S. Senators Platt, Quay
and PenroSe, operators refuse to con-
cede cents ton advance and recog-
milton of union.
,3-J;. P Morgan proposes to Pres Roose.
differences to arbitration commission to
be named by president.
15-StriEe ends. President Roose-
welt names arbitration commits
sion: Brig. Gen. John NJ. Wilson,
Judge Geo. Gray, e. e. Clark, Rt.
Rev. JcAn l.. Spalding, Thos. H.
Watkins and Carroll ID. Wright.
2-Miners convention at Wilkesbarre,
Pa. unanimously voted to end strike.
N-Strike commission organizes with
Judge Gray, chairman.
Nov. 5-COmmission ends inspection OF
mines, having examined of them
a1-Coal operators file answer to demands
of miners, and reiterate that there will
be no recognition of United Mine Work
erS of America.
25-Attempt to reach agreement outside of
arbitration commission blocked by indie
pendent operators.
Dec. accumulation resumes investigation
after 10 days recess to allow disputants
to get together.
0tCommissdon adjourns until Jan. s.
Other Industrial Exenfs.
Jan. 4-Pres. Mitchell, of United Mine
Workers of America reelected. Ohio
supreme court decided in blacklist
case, that right Of employer to employ
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
bituminous fields.
14Big combine of transatlantic steam
ship lines formed.
Mar. martial law proclaimed in Nor
tom ton with $ street railway raj ' Strike oiii'e'
lO-Attorney General Knox Institutes
proceedings at St. Paul to declare Tile
gal northwestern railroad merger and
to dissolve Northern Securities Co.
Apr. PAT Dubois, Pa, 10000 bituminouS
coal miners strike.
e-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 ASSOCIATE in ses-
sion at Wheeling, W. Va, reflects The
odore Shaffer president. Ind. supreme
court decides 3-cent-fare law invalid.
granted by U. S. court in Chicago pre-
venting operations under alleged trust
agreements.
June AStrike of Chicago packing house
and department store drivers compro-
missed after several serious riots. Chi
cago packers enjoined from doing bust
ness in New York state in violation of
antitrust law.
n-strike Of Allls-chalmers employees.
20-Troops guard silk mills at Paterson,
N. j., to prevent riots by strikers.
Jul. international Order of Machinsts
serve notice on western railroads to
pay union scale and observe 9-hour day.
PIN Chicago 5000 teamsters sympathiz-
ing. with 5000 striking freight handlers
Aug. 1-several funerals turned back
from, a Chicago cemetery. on account
of strike of grave diggers for more pay
=. 1890 Chicago boilermakers strike
for higher wages.
international Typographical union in
session at Cincinnati makes maximum
working hours per week 81. Golden ju-
bilee Of union celebrated.
Sep. Labor. day generally observed in
Goal miners strike in Kanawha and
New River, fields, w. Va. involving 49,
s-Pres Roosevelt attends convention of
Firemen's Brotherhood at Chattanoo-
ga and is made an honorary member.
as@Union girl clerks at st. Paul pledge
themselves to marry only members of
labor unions. Lead manufacturers
combine at New York; capital. s6O,OOO-
Oct Ship combine files incorporation
papers at Trenton, N. j., for s120, 600 900
12~New Orleans street railway strikers
accept ultimatum OF 20 cents an hour
with 10 hours maximum work.
Minneapolis flour mills change from
two 12-hour shifts to S-hour schedule.
17-U. S. Packing Co. Understood to be
the beef combine) incorporated at Tren-
ton, N. J.
Nov. 20HPres Gompers. at New Orleans
convention of Am. Federation of Labor,
exonerated Of charges Of infideIity to
trades union principles.
Dec. E-Notice served by 5000 Pullman
1ll) car shop employees of refusal to work
Sundays hereafter.