The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-01-09
June sroronto strike called OF.

| June S-IOrOnto strike called on.
June SCommercial telegraphers' union
members In southeast struck.
June SDctroit carmen struck.
June loIGenersl strike OF telegraph OPP
orators started.
June 2~2.Gompers reelected president
June IA. F. of L. declared for u-hour
week for all crafts and u. S. employees.
july lS-Building 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
July 2-Chicago surface and elevated
car men struck.
July 3l-Police OF London and English
provinces called on strike. but few re-
%sponded.
Aug. Chicago street car strike ended
by compromise.
Railroad shop workers OF u. s. struck.
ers struck.
Fourteen railroad unions demanded In
creased fwages.
Aug. factors on strike in New York.
Aug. 12-Actors' strike spread 10 Chi
cago.
Aug. IA Railway shopmen voted to re-
turn to work
Aug. 24-Pacifc coast railways tied up
by strike.
Aug. G-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. E-Pacific coast railway men
voted TO call Off strike.
Sept. 6-Actors won their strike.
Sept. 9-Three strikers killed in riots
In Hammond. Ind.
Upionized police Of Boston struck.
Sept. l0-State troops called to Boston:
seven persons killed in riots.
Steel workers committee called strike
fnr SAnfnTfYhn V - y a 90 aG 40 1nfnC
| Steel corporation.
Sept. l~9-Carpenters' strike In Chicago
distrtft 81 ended by victory for union
begun. Two killed and several hurt in
riots in Pittsburgh region.
Sept. 21-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
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. 14-Nation-wide strike OF soft coal
miners ordered for Nov. /.
Oct. l5-New York harbor workers
SlIlh6 called OIL.
Oct. 22-Labor bloc withdrew from In
dustrial conference because its resolution
on collective bargaining was rejected.
Oct. 2-lndustrial conference dissolved.
Miners rejected all offers of compro-
mise
Oct. 2S-Tnternational 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-Strike of soft coal miners be-
gan.
Gov S-Federal Judge Anderson ordered
mine leaders to call off strike by Nov. II.
the strike order.
Nov. 23-New York printers voted to
abandon strike.
Nov. Governments 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 increase
and commission to determine scale and
conditions for future. and called off their
strike.
Dec. 13-London tailoring contractors
and garment workers struck.