The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-01-02

off.
Feb ls-Nation-wide strike of building
trades started
March 4-Marine workers at New York
April 15-New England telephone. work.
ers struck.
Leadville district mine workers struck.
May l-Chicago milk drivers struck.
May 1-Great general strike in Winni-
May 1s-Chicago milk wagon drivers
won their strike.
May 26-General strike called in Calgary
and Edmonton, Canada.
May 29-General strike in Toronto.
June 1-Police officers union of Great
Britain voted for strike.
Transportation workers of Paris struck.
June 3-Toronto strike called OFF.
Two men killed In strike riot in Toledo.
Ohio.
June 5-Commercial telegraphers' union
members in southeast struck.
June S-Detroit carmen struck.
June N-General strike of telegraph OPP
orators started.
June H-Ten leaders of the Canadian
strike arrested by the government.
General strike in Rome against high
June 22-Gompers reelected president
June pa. F. of L. declared for 44-hour
week for all crafts and U. S. employees.
July 18-Buildng Employers, association
Oh CnlCdSO locked out DUO,VUV employees
because of carpenters strike.
Boston street car men on strike.
July 2S-Strike Of Atlantic coast ship
workers ended.
car men struck
July 2S-Meeting Of new trade union in
ternational opened in Amsterdam.
July S1-Police Of London and English
provinces called on strike, but few re-
sponded.
Aug. 1-chicago street car strike ended
by compromise.
Railroad shop workers of U. S. struck.
Aug. 6--Brooklyn Rapid Transit work.
ers struck.
Fourteen railroad unions demanded in
creased wages.
Aug. factors on strike in New York.
Aug. 12-Actors' strike spread to Chi
cago.
Aug. l4-Railway shopmen voted to re-
Aug. T7-New York traction workers
struck.
Aug. 1s-New York traction strike set
tied by compromise.
Aug. 1S-Wisconsin state troops sent to
Cudahy to stop strike riots.
Aug. O-lndiana troops sent to Ham
mond because of strike riots.
Aug. A-Pacific coast railways tied up
by strike.
Aug. 25-Presldent Wilson granted A.
cent an hour raise to railway shopmen
lie, calling for industrial truce.
Aug. 26-Railway shopmen's committee
rejected President Wilson's offer and or
dered vote on strike by the men.
Aug. 2s-Director General Hines warned
Pacific coast railway strikers government
would operate roads If they did not re-
sumo work. x
Aug 29-Pacific coast railway men
voted to call off strike.
Sept. 6-Actors won their strike.
Sept. s-Three strikers killed in riots
in Hammond, Ind.
Unionized police of Boston struck
Sept. 10-State troops called to Boston;
seven persons killed in riots.
Steel workers committee called strike
Steel corporation.
Sept 19Carpenters' strike in Chicago
district ended by victory for union.
begun. Two killed and several hurt in
riots in Pittsburgh region.
Sept 27-British railway men struck.
Sept 2S-Strike begun in Bethlehem steel
works.
Oct Lockout and strike in printing
trade in New York: many publications
suspended.
Oct. 5-Serious strike riots in Gary, Ind
British rail workers strike ended by
compromise.
Oct: 6-Federal troops sent to Gary and
martial law proclaimed in Gary, East
Industrial conference opened in Wash
ington.
Oct lo-New York harbor tied up by
Oct. Is-New York teamsters and chauf-
feurs struck
Oct 1LNation-wide strike of soft coal
miners ordered for Nov. /.
Oct. 15-New York harbor workers
strike called off.
Oct. 22-Labor bloc withdrew from in
dustrial conference because it's resolution
on collective bargaining was rejected.
Oct 24-Industrial conference dissolved.
Miners rejected all offers Of compro-
mise.
Oct. 5-Presidept Wilson declared the
proposed coal strike crime and declared
the government would use every means
to Illustrate it.
Congress of Spanish employers declared
a general lockout.
Oct 2s-International congress of work.
ing women opened in Washington.
International labor conference opened
Oct. 2s-Miners' leaders refused to call
off strike
Oct. 31-Government obtained injunction
against the coal strike.
President fixed maximum prices for
Nov. 1-Strike Of soft coal miners be-
gan.
Nov. S-Federal Judge Anderson ordered
mine leaders to call off strike by Nov. H.
Strike of printers in New York broken.
Nov "a. F. L. executive committee
pledged full support of federation to the
coal strikers.
Nov. 11-Miners' union officials Cancelled
the strike order.
Nov 23-New York printers voted to
abandon strike.
Nov. 27-Government's efforts to end
coal strike by negotiation failed, miners
rejecting offer of IA per cent increase in
wages.
Dec. War time coal order renewed by
Fuel Administrator Garfield.
New industrial conference opened in
Washington.
Dec. 2-General strike in Rome, Milan
and Florence, Italy.
Dec. S-Fuel Director Garfield issued
drastic orders for conservation of coal.
Dec. 9-Compromise offer from Presi-
dent Wilson presented to miners Off
Gals
Dec. 10--Miners accepted President Will
sons offer of IA per cent wage increase
and commission to determine scale and
conditions for future, and called off their
strike.
Dec. 13-London tailoring contractors
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