STRIKES IN UNITED STATES

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16036, 29 January 1920, Page 5

STRIKES IN UNITED STATES

Well over a quarter of a million people were out of work in New York owing to strikes at one time or another during October. The Outlook adds to the above information the following: How many strikes there are in the country it is Impossible to tell with any accuracy. Indeed, the situation changes kaleidoscopically. The disease that has struck our industrial life breaks out in one place as it subsides in another; one strike is scarcely over when another one begins. On the Pacific Coast, there was during October a tailors’ strike, which by the end of the month was in process of mediation. In Los Angeles the street and interurban railway employees were on a strike. In Seattle there has been a serious building-trade controversy, which was on the verge of becoming a strike at any moment. Throughout the country some 10 strikes broke out in the small packinghouses.. In Massachusetts there have been strikes in two shoe factories, involving perhaps 2500 people. In Philadelphia there have been a number of small strikes. In Norfolk, Richmond, Petersburg, and Portsmouth, Virginia, there was a strike on the street-car lines, which was settled in the third week of the month. There was also a settlement of a strike in Butte, Great Falls, and Anaconda, Montana, which had continued since July, and of the copper mines in Ducktown, Tennessee. Just 1 before the middle of the month there were, according to the Division df Conciliation of the United States Department of Labour, 62 strikes in various parts of the country which were at that time unadjusted. Of course these were in addition to unnumbered smaller strikes.