The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-01-02
June Aroron,o .tr,k. called OF.

June 3-Toronto strike called on
June 5-Commercial telegraphers union
members In southeast struck
June t-petroft carmen struck
June io-General strike Of telegi aph op-
orators started
June Z-Gompers reelected president
June IA. r. of L. declared for a-hour
week for all crafts and L. 5. employees
July ls-Builring Employers association
OF Chicago locked out S..ss employees
because OF carpenters strike
Boston street car men on strike.
July Zs-strike Of Atlantic coast ship
workers ended
July gs-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 L. struck.
Aug. S-Brooklyn Rapid Transit work
ers struck
Fourteen railroad unions demanded in
creased wages
Aug. factors on strike in New York.
Aug. factors strike spread TO Chi
cago.
Aug. l4-Railway shopmen voted TO re-
turn 10 work
Aug. 2i-Pacihc coast railways tied up
Aug. 25-President Wilson granted a.
/ cent an hour raise to railway shOpmen
| and issued explanatory statement to pub
] III. gaining lot INDUSTRIAL truce.
Aug. G-Railway shopmen's committee
| rejected President Wilson's offer and or
dered vote on strike by the men.
Aug. 9-Pacihc coast railway men
| voted 10 call of strike
Sept G-Actors won their strike
Sept s-Three strikers killed in riots
| In Hammond. Ind
| Unionized police of Boston struck
| sept l0-State troops called to Boston:
| seven persons killed In riots.
Steel workers committee called strike
Tor September q 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. 2s-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.
miners ordered for Nov. l.
OCT. l5-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. 2-Industrial 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. 1-Strike of soft coal miners be-
gan.
Nov. s-Federal Judge Anderson ordered
mine leaders to call OFF strike by Nov. II
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 bv
Fuel Administrator Garfield
Washington
Dec. 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-
Gals.
Dec. 10-Miners accepted President VIII
sons offer of IA per cent wage increa Sc
ana commission to determine scale and
conditions for future, and called off their
strike.
Dec. l3-London tailoring contractors
and garment workers struck