The Connecticut labor press., 1920-01-03

EeO. IV-oeAtue general strIhe called
 Feb 1s-Nation-wide strike of building | trades started March 4-Martne workers at New York ] struck again. April 15-New England telephone work l CTS struck.
 April 20-New England phone strike 1 settled May I4-Chicago milk drivers struck. May 15-Great general strike in Winnt- May 1s-Chicago milk wagon drivers 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 a 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 10-General strike of telegraph op- | orators started. June 17-Ten leaders of the Canadian | strike arrested by the government General strike in Rome against nigh June 22-Gompers reelected president or June ni 2s0A. o E F. of L. declared for 44-hour July 1S-Building Employers association of Chicago locked out 100000 employees because of carpenters strike. Boston street car men on strike July 2S-Strike of Atlantic coast snip workers ended. | July 2s-Chicago surface and elevated July 2s-Meeting of new trade union in l ternattonal opened in Amsterdam: July 31-Poiice of London and English 1 provinces called on strike. but few re-
 Aug. 1-Chicago street car strike ended | by compromise. | Railroad shop workers of U. S.; struck | Aug. 6-Brooklyn Rapid Transit work | CTS struck Fourteen railroad unions demanded in ] Aug. Actors on strike in New York. Aug. 12-Actors' strike spread to Chi Aug. 14-Railway shopmen voted to re- stz Az: l~Sew York traction workers Aug. 1s-New York traction strike set tied by SoWPromise W ;roahsg; .+ +roons sent to Cudahy to stop strike riots. | Aug. 2o-Indiana troops sent to Ham, mond because of strike riots. | by strike. Aug. 2-President Wilson granted A. and issued expla natory statement to pub 1 lic, calling for industrial truce. Aug nr 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- | sume work. Aug 29-Pacifc coast railway men voted to call off strike. | Sept. 6-Actors won their strike.
 Sept s-Three strikers killed in riots
 Unionized police of Boston struck.
 Sept 10-State troops called to Boston: seven persons killed in riots.
 Steel workers committee called strike | for, September p against United States | Steel corporation.
 Sept 19-Carpenters strike in Chicago district ended by victory for union.
 Sept 22EGreat & Iai; strike G of steel workers york ir | riots in Pittsburgh region. | Sept 27-British railway men struck.
 Sept 2s-strike begun in Bethlehem steel
 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
 oct s-Federal troops sent to Gary and Id | Chicago and Indiana Harbor
 Industrial conference opened in Wash
 oct. 1o-New York harbor tied up by
 Oct. 1s-New York teamsters and chauf-
 feurs struck
 Oct. -14-Nation-wide strike of soft coal miners ordered for Nov. 1. Oct. 15-New York harbor workers | strike called off. l dustrial conference because it's resolution on collective bargaining was rejected | Oct. 24Industrial conference dissolved.
 Miners rejected all offers of compro- | mise. | Oct. 5-PreS1dent wilson declared the
 proposed coal strike crime and declared | the government would use every means | to frustrate 1t. | Congress of Spanish employers declared l a general lockout. Oct. 2S-Internatonal congress of work | ing women opened in Washington.
 International labor conference opened | Oct 2s-Miners' leaders refused to call l off strike.
 Oct. 31-Government obtained injunction | against the coal strike.
 President fixed maximum prices for l coal.
 Nov. 1-Strike of soft coal miners be- l gan.
 Nov. s-Federal Judge Anderson ordered | mine leaders to call off strike by Nov. II l Nov. 9-A. F. L. executive committee
 pledged full support of federation to the l coal strikers.
 Nov: 11-Mfners' union, officials cancelled | the strike order.
 Nov 23-New York printers voted to l 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 l Fuel Administrator Garfield.
 New industrial conference opened in | Washington.
 Dec. 2-Genera1 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. 1o-Miners accepted President Will | sons offer of IA per cent wage increase | conditions for future, and called off their | strike.
 Dec 13-London tailoring contractors | and garment workers struck.