Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-08
TEE NEW YORK STRIKE
UNION FORCES IN THE NEW
BUILDING LABOR TROUBLE.
The Settlement inaChicago Remote
Butchers in New York Demand
Boycott q hackers.

A dispatch from New York last night
says: The following is the roster of unions,
with estimate of numbers that is involved
In the strike In New York city: Stonecut-
tiers, 1,2oo; bluestone cutters, LOCO; marble
pollshers SUO; mosaic workers, LOO;
plumbers and gasfitters, 1000; plasterers,
5000; tile layers, 800; electrical workers,
900; cement masons, 100; elevator con-
structors, $40 carpenters, 5000 painters,
5000; house shorers, GOO; metallic fathers,
100. Total, $4,000
The ghost of Sam Parks has hardly been
laid, and the pathetic end by prison and
death, or his power as a labor leader has
scarce been forgotten, when new war OF
building trades workers against their en-
ployers has been declared. The thing has
beEeved that for years to come the victory
or the employers would deter the trades
unions from another attack.
The strikes ordered by the Building
lockout by the Building Trades Employ
ers' Association of all the unions connected
with that organizat ton
The war is, therefore practically as
serious as that instigated by Parks. Prac-
tically every builder in town belongs to the
Employers Association and is bound by its
policy. The Building Trades Alliance, how
ever, does not include, by any means, all
the unions connected with the building
trade. Even the houSeSmithS the men of
Parks union, are not in the alliance. Yet
the position of the alliance is strong, and
a cessation of work by the crafts which 1t
controls will practically stop the most inn
portant building operations in Manhattan
and Brooklyn.
Endorsed by All Labor Unions.
A dispatch from Chicago last night says:
All the labor unions in Chicago have in
dorsed the stock yards strike. After listen
Ing to the strikers side of the controversy,
winch was presented to them by Michael
J. Donnelly, president of the striking butch
ers union, the Chicago Federation of
Labor, which is composed of every labor
organization In Chicago and has a member
snip OF nearly 100000, adopted resolutions
tonight pledging the moral and financial
support OF the federated body as long as
the strike continues.
Each member of the central body will be
assessed small sum per week, and the
whole amount will be turned over to the
striking unions to help in the support of
the strikers and their families during the
struggle with the packers. The exact
amount each member is to be assessed was
left in the hands of committee, with or
ders to report results tomorrow. While the
officials of the Federation of Labor were
unable tonight to give an exact estimate of
the amount of money the strikers would
secure from this source, it was stated that
the total sum would be we'll up in the
thousands each week
After fight which had lasted for nearly
four weeks a settlement of the stock yards
strike seems tonight to be as remote as at
any time since the struggle began. Neither
side to the conflict during all this time has
shown any sign of weakening.
Butchers Demand Boycott of Packers.
a dispatch from New York last night
says: Homer D. Gail, the secretary of the
national organization of Amalgamated Meat
Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North
America, arrived in this city today. He
visited the office of the organization and
there met Henry L. Echeberger, one of
the general organizers, and several of the
business agents of the local unions.
After a short talk they went away to-
gether and had not returned at a late hour
tonight. A meeting of the advisory board
will be held tomorrow night, when the stu
alton will be gone over with the secretary
and, if he so directs, a strike will be or
dered by Wednesday.
a canvass has been made of over 400 of
the retail butchers in the effort to induce
them to stop buying the trust meat and
deal with the independent slaughtererS. 1t
is alleged that all but OF the retail
men promised to change their slaughterers.
who is employed beef cutter in the
retail trade if the employers do not change
from the trust to the independents.