The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-01-02


March 4-Marine workers at New York
struck again.
ers struck.
April 2O-New England phone strike
settled.
May l4-ChIcagu milk drivers strIck.
Nav l5-Great general strike in Winni-
May l6-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-Police officers union of Great
Britain voted for strike.
Transportation workers OF ParlS 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 8-Detroit carmen struck.
June 10-General strike of telegraph OPP
orators started
June l7-Ten leaders of the Canadian
strike arrested by the government:
General strike in Rome against nigh
cost of living.
June GA f. of L. declared for 44-hour
week for all crafts and U. 5: 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 29-Chicago surface and elevated
car men struck
July 2S-Meeting of new trade union in
Opened d. IN ondon and English
provinces called on strike, but rev 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
Aug. factors on strike in New York.
Aug. 12-Actors' strike spread to Chi
cago.
Aug. 14--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. 20-Indiana troops sent to Ham
mond because of strike riots.
Aug. 24-Pacihc coast railways tied up
by strike.
Aug Is -President Wilson granted A.
cent an hour raise to railway shopmen
and issued eXpla natory statement to pub
lie, calling for industrial truce.
Aug. 26-Railway shipments committee
rejected President Wilson'S offer and or
Qefed vote strike by the Hlen.
Aug. 2S-Director General Hines warned
Pacific coast railway strikers government
would operate roads If they did not re-
sumo work.
Aug. 29-Pacifc coast railway men
voted to call off strike
Sept. 6-Actors won their strike
Sept. 9-Three strikers killed in riots
in Hammond. Ind
Sept. 10-State troops called to Boston;
seven persons killed in riots
Steel workers committee called strike
for September % against United States
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. 27-British railway men struck.
Sept. 29-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
Oct 6-Federal troops sent to Gary and
martial law proclaimed in Gary. East
Chicago and Indiana Harbor.
Industrial conference opened in Wash
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. l.
Oct. 15-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 A-Industrial conference dissolved
Miners rejected all offers of compro-
Oct. G-President Wilson declared the
proposed coal strike crime and declared
the government would use every means
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. 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. F. L. executive committee
pledged fun 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-Government's efforts to end
coal strike by negotiation failed. miners
nejecting 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 increase
and commission to determine scale and
conditions for future. and called off their
strike.
Dec. 13-London tailoring contractors
and garment workers struck