The Dolores star., 1920-01-02
.1nne ,-rornnin strike called on.

June 3-Toronto strike called on.
June 5-Commerciai telegraphcrs' union
members In southeast struck.
June S-Detroit carmen struck.
June lO-Cieneral strike of telegraph op-
orators started
June 22-Gompers reelected president
OF A. + of l..
June ga +. OF l.. declared for li-hour
week for all crafts and L. ;, employees
July ls-Building Employers association
of Chicago locked out S11p employees
because of carpenters strike.
Boston street car men on strike,
July 2S-Strike of Atlantic coast snip
workers ended.
July 2g-Chcago surface and elevated
car men struck
July 3l-Police OF London and English
provinces called on strike. but lie" re-
sponded
Aug. l-Chicago street car strike ended
by compromise
Aug 6-Brooklyn Rapid Transit work
ers struck.
Fourteen railroad unions demanded in
creased wages.
Aug factors on strike in New York.
Aug. factors strike spread to Chi
cago
Aug. i4-Raiiway shopmen voted to re-
turn to work
Aug. 24-Pacihc coast railways tied up
by strike.
Aug 5-President Wilson granted 4
cent an hour raise to railway shopmen
and issued explanatory statement to pun
lie, calling for Industrial truce.
rejected President Wilson'S ofrer and or
dered vote on strike by the men
Aug. SLPacLhc coast railway men
voted to call on strike.
Sept. 6-Actors won their strike.
Sept. s-Three strikers killed In riots
In Hammond Ind.
UnionIzed police Of Boston struck.
Sept. l0-State troops called to Boston; :;
seven persons killed In riots.
Steel workers committee called strike
for September 20 against United States
Steel corporation
Sept ls-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-Britlsh railway men struck.
Sept 29-Strke begun in Bethlehem steel
works
Oct Lockout and strike in printing
trade in New York: many publications
Oct. 5-serlous 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
Chicago and Indiana Harbor,
Industrial conference opened in Wash
oct. lo-New York harbor tied up by
strikes.
oct. Ii-Nation- wide strike OF soft coal
miners ordered for Nov. |.
Oct. l5-New York harbor workers
strike called on
oct 22-Labor bloc withdrew from in
on collective bargaining was rejected.
Oct 2i-lndustral conference dissolved.
Miners rejected all offers of ComprO-
mise
Oct 2S-lnternationnl congress OF work
ing women opened In Washington.
international labor conference opened
in Washington
oct S1-Government obtained injunction
against the coal strike
Nov. l-Strike of soft coal miners be
gan.
Nov. S-Federal Judge Anderson ordered
mine leaders to call on strike by Nov II
Nov ll-Mners' union officials Cancelled
the strike order.
Nov 23-New York printers voted to
abandon strike
Nov. 2I-GOverument's efforts to end
coal strike by negotiation failed. miners
rejecting orer OF II 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,
cials
Dec. ln-Mners accepted President VIII
son 5 offer OF II per cent wage Increase
and commission to determine scale and
conditions for future. and called off their
strike.
Dec. l3-I.ondon tailoring contractors
and garment workers struck