The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-01-01
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Feb. is-Natlon-wlds 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
| settled,
May A-Chicago milk drivers struck.
! May l5-Great general strike in Winni-
May l6-ChIcago milk wagon drivers
| won their strike
May % General strike called in Calgary
| and Edmonton, Canada.
| May g-General strike In Toronto
| June Police officers union OF Great
| Britain voted for strike.
| Transportation workers OF Paris struck.
June 3-Toronto strike called on.
/ Two men killed in strike riot In Toledo,
! ohio
| June 5-Commercial telegraphers' union
/ members In southeast struck
| June S-Detroit carmen struck
! June l0--General strike of telegraph OPP
/ orators started
June Item leaders OF the Canadian
strike arrested by the government, $3.50,
| General strike in Rome against hlgh
cost OF living.
June 22-Gompers reelected president
| Of A. f. OF l..
June pa. f. of [. declared for 44-hour
week for all crafts and L. 5 employees.
July B-Buildng Employers association
OF Chicago locked out 10000 employees
because OF carpenters strike
Boston street car men on strike,
July 2S-Strike Of Atlantic coast ship
workers ended.
July 29-Chicago surface and elevated
car men struck
july Meeting of new trade union in
| ternatonal opened in Amsterdam.
July 3l-Polce OF London and English
provinces called on strike. but few re-
sponded
Aug Chicago street car strike ended
| by compromise.
Railroad shop workers Of o. s struck
Aug o-Brooklyn Rapid Transit work
ers struck.
Fourteen railroad unions demanded In
creased wages.
Aug ACTORS on strike in New York.
Aug factors strike spread to chi
cago
Aug. r-RaiIway shopmen voted to re-
Aug ll-New York traction workers
struck
Aug iS-New York traction strike set
tied by compromise
Aug, l9-WisCOnsn state troops sent to
tudany to stop strike riots.
Aug 2O-Indiana troops sent to Ham
mond because Of strike riots.
Aug. A-Paciic coast railways tied up
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 g6-Railway shOpmens committee
rejected President Wilson'S offer and or
dered vote on strike by the men.
Aug, 2S-Dlrector General Hines warned
Pacific coast railway strikers government
would operate roads If they did not re-
Aug. 2g-PaciAc coast railway men
voted to call Off strike.
Sept G-Actors won their strike
Sept 9-Three strikers killed In riots
in Hammond, Ind.
Unionzed police Of Boston struck
Sept l0-State troops called to Boston:
seven persons killed in riots.
Steel workers committee called strike
for September % 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 2l-British railway men struck.
sept 9-Strike begun in Bethlehem steel
works
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 lO-New York harbor tied up by
strikes
oct 13-New York teamsters and chauf-
feurs struck
oct l4-Nation- wlde strike OF soft coal
miners ordered for Nov, l.
Oct l5-New York harbor workers
strike called off.
oct 22-Labor bloc withdrew from in
dustrIal conference because it's resolution
on collective bargaining was rejected
Och A-In0llgtTiDl conference bigEDlVnH
Miners rejected all offers OF compro-
mise
oct &-President Wilson declared the
proposed coal strike a crime and declared
the government would use every means
TO Illustrate II
Congress Of Spanish employers declared
a general lockout
oct 2S-International congress OF work
ing women opened in Washington.
international labor conference opened
I'm Washington
oct 29-Miners' leaders refused to call
off strike.
oct. 3l-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. H.
Strike OF printers in New York broken.
Nov "a T., L. executive committee
pledged full support Of federation to the
coal strikers.
Nov MINERS union officials Cancelled
the strike order.
Nov 23-New York printers voted TO
abandon strike
Nov 27-Govemment'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 Administrator Garfield.
New industrial conference opened In
Washington.
Dec 2-Goneral strike I'm Rome, Milan
and Florence, Italy.
Dec S-Fucl Director Garfield issued
drastic orders for conservation OF coal
Dec 9-Compromise offer from Pres-
dent Wilson presented TO miners OFF,
Cials
Dec. 10 Miners accepted President VIII
sons offer OF IA per cent wage increase
ana commission to determine scale and
conditions for future and called off their
strike
Dec i3-London tailoring contractors
and garment workers struck.