The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-08
CHICAGO UNIONS
 ID AID STRIKERS Endorsement of 3OO,OOO Men
 Given the Strike SETTLEMENT STILL REMOTE 
Strikers Are Confident and Claim They Are in Better Position Than When Strike Was
 First Declared.

Chicago, August I-=All the laDor unions in Chicago have endorsed the stock yards strike.
 After listening to the strikers side of the controversy which was presented to them by Michael J. Donnelly, president of the striking butchers union, the Chi cago Federation of Labor which is com posed of every labor organization in Chi cago and has a membership of nearly 100000 adopted resolutions tonight pledg- ing 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 sup port of the strikers and their families during the struggle with the packers, The exact amount each m eInber is to be assessed was left in the hands of conn mittee with orders to report results to- morrow.
 While the officials of the Federation of Labor were unable tonight to give @ fair estimate of the amount of money the strikers would secure from this source, 1t was stated that the total sum would be well up in the thousands each week.
 Settlement as Remote as Ever. 4 After fight which has lasted for nearly four weeks, settlement of the stockyards strike seems tonight to be as remote as at any time since the struggle for supremacy began. Neither side to the conflict during all this time has shown any signs of weakening. The packers, while claiming that they will soon have their affairs in normal condition again, still admit that so far they have been able to get but $50 of their old employees back, and that the majority of their men are unsSilled workers.
 Accoroing to the strixers every animal that has been slaughtered since the strike was called has been at a financial loss to the packers, as in the majority of cases a lack of skilled workmen has made 1t impossible to operate the by-produets in the slaughterirg, and this source which under normal conditions is a clear profit to the packers, has been allowed to go to waste.
 Nothing to Indicate Break.
 Last week the packers figured on a break in the ranks of the strikers when work was resumed tomorrow morning, but there is nothing tonight to indicate that the men were considering such step, or that they had any idea of sur rendering tomorrow or in ..e near future. According to Michael Donnelly. president of the Butchers union, the organization which precipitated the strike, the strikers are in a better position today than they were on July 12, the day the strike was called.
 Clash at Kansas Citv
 Kansas City August 7.-Several shots were fired during a clash between stril1- CTS and strike-breakers at Armourdale tonight, but no one was injured. num- Der of strike-breakers were being taken into the Cudahy plant through the cattle chutes when 8 crowd of strikers attempt ed to intercept them and the shooting fol- lowed.
 Two car loads of strike breakers were brought In from northern Kansas and southern Missouri today. Strikers met them at the depot and induced fifty to desert.
 May Gall Strike.
 New York, August 7.-IIomer D. Calla, the secretary of the national organization of the Amalgamated Meat-Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, ar- rived in this city today A meeting of the advisory board will be held tomorrow night, when the situation will be gone over with the secretary, and if he so di- rects strike will be ordered on Wednes- day
 A canvass has been made of over 400 of the retail butchers in the effort to in- duce them to stop buying the trust meat and deal with the independent slaughter CTS. It is alleged that all but one of the retail men promised to change their slaughterersJ It Is planned to call out every union man who is employed as a beef cutter In the retail trade, if the em- ployers do not change from the trust to the independents.