Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1920-01-01

June S-Toronto strike called on
June S-Commercial telegraphers' union
members IN southeast struck.
June S-Detroit carmen struck
June e-General strike of telegraph OPP
orators started
June 22-Gompers reelected president
June ga +. OF L, declared for i4-hour
week for an crafts and U. S. employees,
SulS h-buildlng Employers association
OF Chlcago locked out ao,coo employees
because OF carpenters strike.
boston street car men on strike
July SS-Strlke of Atlantic coast ship
workers ended
July 2s-Chieago surface and elevated
July sl-Pollce OF London and English
provinces called on strike. but few re-
sponded
Aug. l-Chicago street car strike ended
by compromise.
Railroad shop workers OF u. 5. struck.
aug. b-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
cage
Aug. 4-Rallway shopmen voted to re-
Aug. 24-Pacihc coast railways tied up
by strike
Aug 25-President Wilson granted 4
cent an hour raise to railway shopmen
and Issued explanatory statement 10 pub
lie. calling for industrial truce,
aug. 26-Railway shopmen's committee
rejected President Wilson's offer and or
uered vote on strike by the men,
Aug @-Pacific coast railway men
voted TO call on strike
Sept. 6-ACtOrs won their strike
Sept. s-Three strikers killed in riots
In Hammond. Ind
Unonized police OF Boston struck
Sept, l0-State troops called 10 Boston;
seven persons killed In riots
GV.aal ra.wNrr 4.t H. till
Tor September p against United States
steel corporation
Sept l9-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. @-Strike begun in Bethlehem steel
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 I'm Wash
ington
oct 1O--New York harbor tied up by
strikes
Oct l4-Nation-w 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
Oct. 4-lndustrial conference dissolved.
Miners rejected all offers of compro-
mise
Oct 2S-International congress OF work.
ing women opened in Washington.
International labor conference opened
In Washington.
oct 3l-Government obtained injunction
against the coal strike
Nov. Strike Of soft coal miners be-
gan
Nov S-Federal Judge Anderson ordered
mine leaders to call off strike by Nov IL
Nov. ll-Miners' union officials Cancelled
the strike order
Nov. 23-New York printers voted to
abandon strike.
Nov. 2I-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 General strike in Rome. Milan
and Florence, Italy
Dec S-Fuel Director Garfield issued
drastic orders for conservation OF coal
Dec 9-Compromse offer from pres-
dent Wilson presented TO miners offl-
Gals
Dec lO-Miners accepted President WI
sor's offer OF IA per cent wage increase
conditions for future, and called Off their
strike.
Dec 13-London tailoring contractors
and garment workers struck