Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-01-06

Feb lO-Seattie general strike called
Feb. 1s-Nation-wide strike of bui,a,rs
trades started
March marine workers at New York
struck again.
April 15-New England telephone work
April 20-New England phone strike
settled.
May I4-Chicago milk drivers STRUCK
May 15-Great general strike in Winni-
peg.
May rs General strike called in Calgary
and Edmonton, Canada
May 2S-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,
June 5-Commerciaf telegraphers' union
members in southeast struck.
June S-Detroit carmen struck.
June l0-General strike of telegraph OPP
orators started.
June lien leaders of the Canadian
strike arrested by the government.
General strike in Rome against high
June 22-Gompers reelected president
of A. F. of L.
June ga. F. of L. declared for 44-hour
week for all crafts and U. S. employees.
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 ship
workers ended.
July 2s-Chicago surface and elevated
car men struck
July 2S-Meeting of new trade union in
ternational opened in Amsterdam.
July 31-Police of London and English
provinces called on strike. but few re-
Sponded.
Aug. 1-Chicago street car strike ended
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. 12-Actors strike spread to Chi
cago.
Aug. 1LRailway shopmen voted to re-
Aug. 17-New York traction workers
struck.
Aug. 1s-New York traction strike set
Aug. Wisconsin state troops sent to
Cudahy TO stop strike riots.
Aug. 20-Indiana troops sent to Ham
mond because of strike riots.
Aug. A-Pacilc coast railways tied up
by strike.
Aug. @-President Wilson granted A.
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. 28-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 of strike.
Sept. 6-Actors won their strike
Sept. 9-Three strikers killed in riots
in Hammond, Ind.
Ifnionjzad Do1ica Of Roston struclx
Sept. 10-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
riots in Pittsburgh region.
Sept 27-British railway men struck.
Sept 2S-Strike begun in Bethlehem steel
works.
Oct. Lockout and strike in printing
trade in New York; many publications
oct. 5wserious strike riots in Gary, Ind
British rail workers strike ended by
compromise.
Oct. 6-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
strikes.
Oct 13-New York teamsters and chauf-
feurS struck
Oct 14-Nation- strike of soft coal
miners ordered for Nov. l.
Oct 15-New. York harbor workers
Oct 22-Labor bloc withdrew from in
duStrial conference because it's resolution
on collective bargaining was rejected.
Oct A-Industrial conference dissolved
Miners rejected all offers of compro-
mise
Oct 2-President Wilson declared the
proposed coal strike a crime and declared
the government would use every means
to Illustrate 1t.
Congress of Spanish employers declared
a general lockout.
Oct. 2s-International congress of work.
ing women opened in Washington.
International labor conference opened
in Washington.
Oct 2s-Miners' leaders refused to call
off strike.
against the coal strike.
President fixed maximum prices for
coal
Nov. l-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. F. L. executive committee
pledged full support of federation to the
coal strikers.
Nov. 11-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. 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 increa Sc
and commission to determine scale and
conditions for future. and called off their
strike.
Dec. 13-London tailoring contractors
and garment workers struck