, 1920-01-01

June 3-Toronto strike called on.
June 5[Commercial t~elegraphers' union
members in southeast struck.
June S-Detroit carmen struck
June 1o-General strike of telegraph OPP
June 22-Gompers reelected president
June 2sNA. F. of L. declared for 4-hour
July .1s-Building Employers association
OF Chicago locked out 100000 employees
because e Of carpenters strike;
July 2S-Strike of Atlantic coast ship
workers ended.
July 2s-chicago surface and elevated
car men struck.
July 3I-Police of London and English
provinces called on strike. but few re-
Aug. Chicago street car strike ended
by compromise.
railroad shop workers of u. S: struck.
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. H-Railway shopmen voted to re-
turn to work
Aug, A-Paclhc coast railways tied up
by strike.
Aus. 25-President Wilson granted A.
cert an hour raise to railway shopmen
amt issued explanatory statement to pub
lie, calling for Industrial truce.
rejected President Wilson'S offer and or
deled vote ts on strike by the men;
voted to call off strike.
Sept. 6-Actors won their strike.
Sept: 9-Three strikers killed In riots
Unionised police of Boston struck.
Sept f0-State troops called to Boston:
seven persons killed in riots.
Steel workers committee called strike
for September % against United States
Sept. 1sCCarpenters' strike in Chicago
district ended by victory for union.
Sept strike of steel workers
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-Federai 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
miners ordered for Nov. i.
Oct. 15-New York harbor workers
strike called on.
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-
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-Federal Judge Anderson ordered
mine leaders to call Off strike by Nov. II.
Nov. u-Miners' union officials Cancelled
the strike order.
Nov. 23-New York printers voted to
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. 1-War time coal order renewed by
Fuel Administrator Garfield.
New industrial conference opened in
Washington.
Dec. General strike in Rome. Milan
and Florence, Italy.
Dec. &Fuel Director Garfield Issued
drastic orders for conservation OF coal.
Dec. SCompromise offer from Presi-
dent Wilson presented to miners on
Gals.
Dec. 1o-Miners accepted President Will
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 workers struck.