Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-01-07
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Chronology
Of the Year 1919
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June t-Police officers union OF Grea,
Britain voted for strike.
TRANSPORTATION workers of Paris struck.
June S-Toronto strike called of.
Iwo men killed in strike riot in Toledo
June 5-Commercial telegraphers' union
members in southeast struck
June S-Detrot carmen struck
June lo-General strike of telegraph op.
orators started
June 22-Gompers reelected president
June ga. +. of l.. declared for 4I-hour
Week tor all crafts and l.. S employees
July ls-Building Employers association
OF Chicago locked out 10000 employees
, because of carpenters strike
Boston street car men on strike.
July @-Strke of Atlantic coast ship
July 29v-Chicago surface and elevated
July 2ST7Atsetiug OF new trade union in.
Iernanonaf opened in Amsterdam. ....
JtGy 3i4-tAo.ice of Loudon aud English
spondgdy. arI- t-. .s.y
+ Aug 1l-Chicaso street car strike ended
,bHiicompco4nise@.
Railroad shop workers of L. S struck
Aug i'6-Brooklyn Rapid Transit work
ers struck. 4..l'
Fourteen railroad unions demanded ir.
creased WAGES. .lH, a s's..c b. ~. ID,
Aug factors on strike in New York.
Aug. Factors strike spread % Chi.
cage. 80. .,Ias
Aug. H-Railway shopmen voted to re
Aug. l7-NeSf York traction workers
struck.
Aug. 1S-New' York traction strike set
tied by compromise
aug. I9-Wisconsin state troops sent TO
Cudahy TO stop strike riots.
Aug. 21-Indiana troops seat to Ham
mond because of strike riots.
Aug. A-Paciic coast railways tied up
Aug. 25-President Wilson granted 4
cent an hour raise to railway shopmen
and issued explanatory statement to pub
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
Aug. 29-Pacfc coast railway men
voted to call off strike.
Sept 6-Actors won their strike
Sept s-Three strikers killed in riots
In Hammond, Ind.
gnionized police of Boston struck
Sept 10-State troops called to Boston:
seven persons killed in riots.
Steel workers committee called strike
for September % against United States
Steel corporation.
Sept 1SICarpenters' 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
works.
Oct. Lockout and strike In printing
trade In New york; many publications
Oct. 5-Serious strike riots in Gary. Ind
British rail- workers strike ended by
compromise. 1'
Oct. 6-Federal troops sent to Gary and
martial law proclaimed in Gary, East
Chicago and Indiana Harbor
lndustrial conference opened In Wash
oct io-New York batbtr tied Up by
,o Oct itm .Sss wide strike Of soft coal
pet S i5NeS fo York MoV harbor workers
strike called off.
Oct 22-Labor bloc withdrew from in
dustrial conference because its resolution
on collective bargaining was rejected.
Oct. 24-Industrial conference dissolved
Miners rejected all offers of compro-
Oct. 3-President Wilson declared the
proposed coal strike a crime and declared
the government would use every means
to Illustrate IT.
Congress OF Spanish employers declared
a general lockout
Oct. 2S-lnternational congress of work
Ing women opened In Washington.
International labor conference opened
In Washington.
Oct. 3l-Government obtained Injunction
against the coal strike.
President fixed maximum prices for
coal
Nov. 1-Strike of soft coal miners be-
gan
Nov. S-Federal Judge Anderson ordered
mine leaders TO call off strike by Nov II
Nov, 80 l.. executive committee
pledged fun support of federation TO the
coal strikers.
Nov. ll-Miners union officials Cancelled
the strike order
Nov. 22--New York printers voted to
abandon strike.
NOV 2s--GovernmenCs efforts to end
coal strike by negotiation failed miners
rejecting offer of IA per cent increase In
wages.
Dec l-War time coal order renewed by
Fuel Administrator Garfield
New industrial conference opened In
Washington.
Dec General strike in Rome, Milan
and Florence. Italy.