Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-01-01
June 3-Toronto strike called on.
June 6-Commercial telegraphers union
in southeast struck.

June 3-Toronto strike called on,
June 6-Commercial telesraphers union
members In southeast struck.
June S-Detroit carmen struck.
June WA-General strike Of telegraph OBJ
orators starred
June PA, +. Of l.. declared for 44-hour
week for all crafts and U. S. employees.
July lS-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
July 2s-Chicago surface and elevated
car men struck
July sl-Police of London and English
provinces called on strike, but few re-
sponded
Aug. 1-Chicago street car strike ended
by compromise.
Railroad shop workers Of U. 8. 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. A-PaciAc coast railways tied up
by strike,
cent an hour raise to railway shopmeh
and issued explanatory statement to pub
lie. calling for industrial truce
aug &RaiiWas shopmsnsf s COMMITTEES ,nd oss
dered vote on strike by the men.
Aug. @-Pacihc coast railway men
voted to call off strike.
Sept. G-ActOrs won their strike.
Sept. S-Three strikers killed In riots
unionized police of Boston strucs
Sept. 10-State troops called to Boston:
seven persons killed in riots.
Steel workerS committee called strike
for September % against United Sta,es
Sept. ls-Carpenters' strike in Chicago
district ended by victory for union.
Sept 29,-Great strike OF steel workers work r,
riots In Pittsburgh region
Sept. 27-Britsh railway men struck.
Sept. 29-strike begun in Bethlehem steel
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.
Oct; s-Federal troops sent to Gary and
martial law proclaimed in Gary. East
Chicago and Indiana Harbor
Industrial conference opened IN WASH
ington.
Oct. lo-New York harbor tied up by
Oct. 14-Nation-wide strike of soft coal
miners ordered for Nov. /.
Oct. 1ENew Fork harbor workers
strike called of.
Oct. 22-Labor bloc Withdrew from In
dustrial conference because its resolution
on collective bargaining WAS rejected.
Oct. 2-industrial conference dissolved
Miners rejected all offers of compro-
mise
Oct. 2s-InternationaI congress OF work.
ing women opened in Washington.
International labor conference opened
In Washington.
Oct. 3l-Government obtained injunction
against the coal strike
Nov: l-Stlike of soft coal miners be.
gan.
NoY. s-Federal Judge Anderson ordered
mine leaders to call off strike by Nov. IL
Nov. l1-Mlners' union officials Cancelled
the strike order.
Nov. es-New York printers voted te
abandon strike.
Nov. 27-Government's efforts to enc
coal strike by negotiation failed miners
rejecting offer OF IA per cent increase II
wages
Dec. War time coal order renewed by
Fuel Administrator Garfield.
New industrial conference opened II
Washington
Dec. 2-Genefal strike in Rome, Mila,
and Florence. italy
Dec. 8-Fnel Director Garfield issuet
drastic orders for conservation Of coal
Dec. 9-Compromise offer from Presi
dent Wilson presented to miners OH
cials.
Dec 10-Miners accepted President VIII
sons offer OF IA per cent wage increas
and commission TO determine scale an,
conditions for future, and called off thei
strike.
Dec 1s-London tailoring contractor
and garment workers struck.