Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-08-13
ALL LABOR UNIONS
|NDORSE STRIKE
Chicago Federation of Labor Pledges
Moral and Financial Support.
WILL FIGHT TO The END
Every Union Man in Chicago VIII
lie Assessed n small Sum Week
~ to Help support strikers
aud Their Families.

Chicago. Aug. S.-All the labor un-
ions in Chicago have indorscd tho
stock yards strike. After listening 10
tho strikers side of the controversy,
which was presented TO them by Mi
chae j. Donnelly, president OF the
striking Butchers union, the Chicago
Federation of Labor, which is composed
OF every labor organization In Chicago,
and has q membership Of nearly 30O,-
900, adopted resolutions Sunday night,
,no...A, nc moral aud financial sup
port Of tho federated body as long as
the strike continues Each member OF
tho central body will be assessed a
small sum per week, and tho whole
amount will be turned over to the
striking unions to help IN the support
OF the strikers and their families dur
ing the struggle with the packers. The
exact amount each member Is TO lie
assessed was left in the hands Of a
committee, with orders 10 report re-
suits Monday While the officials OF the
Federation of Labor were unable 10
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 well up in the
thousands each week
After fight which lasted for nearly
four weeks, a settlement of the stock
Yards strike seems TO be as remote as
at any Time since the struggle for su-
premscy began. Neither side to the
conflict during all this time, has
shown any signs of weakening.
Few skilled Men at Work.
The packers, while claiming that
they will soon have their affairs in
normal condition again, so successful
ly have they been in securing non-un-
ion men, still admit that SO far they
have been able to get but $50 of Their
cid employees back, and that the ma
jority of their men are unsliillcd
workers.
In the last statement given out by
the packers it was said that nearly
half as many men were at work now
as before the strike brraa. These men
have been brought TO Chicago from
all parts of the country, the majority
OF them having never Gecn a meat
packing plant before coming here.
With these mcr, the packers have snc-
ceeded in accomplishing q great deal
Of work, but according 10 the strikers,
every animal that mas been saugh-
tered since the strike was called has
been al a financial loss 10 the packers.
as in the majority of cases lack OF
skilled worlmen has made it impos si-
bic 10 operate the by-product depart
ments, and this course Of revenue,
which. under normal conditions, is
clear profit to the packers, has been
allowed TO go to waste.
No sign of Break.
Last week the packers were figuring
on D break in the ranks of the strllt-
ers when work was resumed Monday
morning, but there was nothing Sun
day night that would indicate that the
men were even considering such a
step, or that they had any idea of sur
Monday or nj any future
time. According 10 Michael ]. Don
nelly president of the Butchers union,
tho organization which preciptated
the strike, the strikers are in better
position than they were on July II, the
day the original strike was called,
During the four weeks that the
strike has been in force, said Mr.
Donnelly, "tLerc has been less than
two hundred deserticnS from the vari-
Gus unions whose members have joined
the struggle for living wages, and not
one of these workmen who have gone
back to the packers Is a skilled work
or,
ITO offset these dcsert,onS, our men
have secured at least twice that num-
ber of new recruits from the mon the
packers have brought TO Chicago to
take the strikers places, From d.s-
pute between the packers and butcher
workmen, the strike has spread into
between organized capital and
labor, but there arc not enough men
and women on this continent TO break
this strike, despite the assertions Of