Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1920-01-02

June s-Toronto strike called on
June 5-coRmerclai telegraphers' union
members In southeast struck
June S-Detr0it carmen struck
orators starred
June z2-Gompers reelected president
June PA. +. of /. declared for 44-hour
week for an crafts ana y. S. employees.
July ls-Butlding Employers association
OF Chicago locked out 10000 employees
because or carpenters strike.
Boston street car men on strike.
July 2s-Strike OF Atlantic coast ship
July s-schicago surface and elevated
car men struck
frly sl-Poiice OF London and English
provinces called on strike. but few re-
Aug. 1-chieago street car strike ended
| by compromise.
Railroad shop workers OF U. S. struck.
aug. oLSrooklyn Rapid Transit work.
Fourteen railroad UNIONS demanded in
creased wages.
Aug lz-Actors strike spread to Chi
Aug: i4-RaiIway shopmeo voted to re-
Aug 24-Paciac coast railways tied IN
Aug 25-Presldent Wilson granted 4
cent an hour RAISE to railway shopmen
and issued explanatory statement to pub
lie, calling for Industrial truce.
aug 16-Railway shipments committee
rejected President Wilson's offer and or
.dered vote on strike by the men.
Aug 29-Pacific coast railway men
voted to call or strike
Sept. 6-Actors won their strike
sept 9-Three strikers killed In riots
in Hammond. Ind
Unionized police OF Boston struck
Sept Estate troops called to Boston:
seven persons killed in riots.
Steel workers committee called strike
for september p against United States
Steel corporation
Sept. 1s-carpehters strike in Chicago
district ended by victory for union
Sept. 22-Great strike of steel workers
begun. Two. killed and several siurt in
riots in Pittsburgh region.
Sept. 2l--British railway men struck
Sept. 2s-Strike begun in Bethlehem steel
works.
Oct Lockout and strike in printing
trade IN New York; many publications
Oct. 5-sericus 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
ington.
Oct. 1O-New York harbor tied up by
strikes
Oct. l4-NatIon- wide strike of soft coal
miners ordered for Nov. l.
strike called on
Oct. 22-Labor bloc Withdrew from in
dustrial conference because its resolution
on collective bargaining was rejected.
Oct. 24-lnduStrial 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. 8-Federal Judge Anderson ordered
mine leaders to call of strike by Nov II
Nov. MINERS union officials Cancelled
the strike order.
Nov. % New York printers voted to
abandon strike
Nov. 27--Governmept'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 Administrators Garfield
New industrial conference opened in
Washington.
Dec. 2-Generai strike in Rome. Milan
and Florence. italy
Dec. 8-Fuel Director Garfield issued
drastic orders for conservation OF coal
Dec. 9-Compromise offer from Presi-
Gals
Dec. 10-M Miners accepted President VIII
sons offer of IA per cent wage increase
and commission to determine scale and
conditions for future. and called or their
strike.
Dec 1s-London tailoring contractors
and garment workers struck