The Yale expositor., 1920-01-08

June S-Toronto strike called on.
June 6-Commercial telegraphers' union
members In southeast struck.
June S-Detroit carmen struck.
June lo-General strike OF telegraph OPP
orators started.
June 22-Gompers reelected president
| OF A. +. OF l.
week for all crafts and u. S. employees.
July lS-Building Employers association
of Chicago locked out 10000 employees
because OF carpenters strike.
Boston street car men on strike.
July 2S-Strike OF Atlantic coast ship
workers ended.
July 2s-chicaso surface and elevated
July si-Police OF London and English
provinces called on strike, but few re-
| sponded.
Aug. l-Chicago street car strike ended
Railroad shop workers OF U. 8. struck.
Aug. 6-Brooklyn Rapid Transit work.
| ers struck.
Fourteen railroad unions demanded IN
creased wages.
Aug. factors on strike in New York.
Aug. l2-Actors' strike spread to Chi
| cago.
Aug. l+Railway shopmen voted to re-
Aug. Apache coast railways tied up
Aug. S-President Wilson granted e
cent an hour raise to railway shopmen
and issued explanatory statement to pub
lie, calling for Industrial truce.
Aug. B-Railway shipments committee
rejected President Wilson's offer and or
| dered vote on strike by the men.
Aug. 2s-Pacihc coast railway men
voted to call OFF strike.
Sept. 6-Actors won their strike.
Sept. e-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
for September 70 against United States
Sept 19-Carpenters' strike in Chicago
district ended by victory for union.
Sept. 22-Great strike OF steel workers
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
Oct, 6-Federal troops sent to Gary and
| martial law proclaimed in Gary, East
| Chicago and Indiana Harbor.
Industrial conference opened in Wash
| ington.
Oct, lO-New York harbor tied up by
| strikes.
oct. 14-Nation wide strike of soft coal
miners ordered for Nov. /.
Oct. 15-New York harbor workers
strike called OF.
Oct. 22-Labor bloc withdrew from in
dustrial conference because its resolution
on collective bargaining was rejected.
Oct. A-Industrial conference dissolved.
Miners rejected all offers OF compro-
mise
Oct. 2S-International congress OF work.
ing women opened in Washington.
International labor conference opened
| In Washington.
Oct. 3l-Government obtained injunction
| against the coal strike.
Nov. 1-Strike of soft coal miners be-
! gan.
Nov. s-FederaI Judge Anderson ordered
mine leaders to call off strike by Nov. IL.
Nov. u-Miners' union officials Cancelled
the strike order.
Nov 23-New York printers voted to
! abandon strike.
Nov. 27-Government's efforts 10 end
coal strike by negotiation failed, miners
rejecting offer of Il 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. 1o-Mners accepted President VIII
| 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
| and garment workers struck.