The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-01-10
Feb. SINNERS Of Butte d,.triet .tru..


Feb. 1s-Nation-w strike of building
trades started
March 4--Marine workers at New York
struck again.
April l5-New England telephone work
ers struck.
April 2O-New England phone strike
Leadville district mine workers struck.
May H-ChicagO milk drivers struck.
May 15-Great general strike in Winni-
peg
May 16-Chicago milk wagon drivers
won their strike.
May 26-General strike called in Calgary
and Edmonton, Canada.
May 29-General strike in Toronto
June 1-Poiice 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 OPP
orators started
June 17--Ten leaders of the Canadian
strike arrested by the government.
General strike in Rome against high
cost of living.
June 22-Gompers reelected president
of A. f. of l..
June pa. F. 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 8-Strike OF Atlantic coast ship
workers ended.
July @-Chicago surface and elevated
car men struck,
July 28-Meeting of new trade union In
In
July 31-Police of London and English
provinces called OF, strike, but few re-
spOnded.
Aug. 1-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. 2-Actors' strike spread to Chi.
cago.
Aug, l+Railway shopmen voted to re-
Aug. 17-New York traction workers
struck.
Aug. 1S-New York traction strike set
tied by compromise.
Aug. 19-Wisconsin state troops sent to
Cudahy to stop strike riots.
Aug. O-Indiana troops sent TO Ham
mond because of strike riots.
Aug. A-Pacific coast railways tied up
by strike
Aug. 25-President Wilson granted A.
cent an hour raise to railway shopmen
and issued explanatory statement to pub
lie, calling for industrial truce.
Aug. 26-Railway shipments committee
rejected President Wilson's offer and or
dered vote on strike by the men.
Aug. 8-Director General Hines warned
Pacific coast railway strikers government
would operate roads If they did not re-
sumo work.
Aug. 2s-Pacihc coast railway men
voted to call off strike.
Sept. 6-Actors won their strike.
Sept. 9-Three strikers killed in riots
in Hammond, Ind.
Unionizad police Of Boston struck.
Sept. 10-State troops called to Boston:
seven persons killed in riots.
Steel workers committee called strike
for September 2S against United States
Steel corporation.
Sept. 19-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. N-British railway men struck.
Sept, @-Strike begun In Bethlehem steel
works.
Oct Lockout and strike in printing
trade In New York; many publications
suspended
Oct. 5-Serious 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 1s-New York teamsters and chauf-
feurs struck
Oct. 14-Nation- wide. strike of soft coal
miners ordered for Nov. !.
Oct. b-New York harbor workers
strike called off.
Oct. 22-Labor bloc withdrew from in
dustrial conference because its resolution
on collective bargaining was rejected.
Oct. M-Industrial conference dissolved.
Miners rejected all offers Of compro-
mise.
Oct. &-President Wilson declared the
proposed coal strike crime and declared
the government would use every means
to Illustrate It.
Congress of Spanish employers declared
a general lockout
Oct. 8-International congress of work.
ing women opened In Washington.
International labor conference opened
in Washington.
Oct. 2S-Miners' leaders refused to call
OF strike
Oct. 31-Government obtained Injunction
against the coal strike.
President fixed maximum prices for
coal.
Nov. 1-strike Of soft coal miners be-
gan.
Nov. s-Federal Judge Anderson ordered
mine leaders to call off strike by Nov, II.
Strike OF printers In New York broken.
Nov. ga. F. L. executive committee
pledged full support of federation to the
coal strikers.
Nov. 1t-Miners' union officials Cancelled
the strike order.
Nov. 2-New York printers voted to
Nov. 2-Government's efforts to end
coal strike by negotiation failed miners
rejecting offer of Il 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,
Gals.
Dec. 10-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 garment workers struck.
FOREIGN
Jan. @-Royalist revolution broke out