Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-08
LABOR INDoRSEs IT.
Chicago's Stockyards Strike Has Fed-
 erasion's Support.

eE6S1Om support
 CHICAGO, Aug. S.-All the labor un- ions in Chicago have indorsed 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 Chicago Federation of Labor, which is composed of every labor organization in Chicago and has a membership of nearly 100000, adopted resolutions last night pledging the moral and financial support of the fed erated body as long as the strike con- tinues. Each member of the central body will be assessed a 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 total sum will be well up in the thousands each week
 After fight which lasted for nearly four weeks settlement of the stock yards strike seems 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 weak ening.
 The packers, while claiming that they will soon have their affairs in normal condition again, so successful have they been in securing nonunion men, yet admit that so far they have been able to get but $50 of their old employees back and that the majority of these men are unskilled 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 began. These men have been brought to Chicago from all parts of the country, the majority of them having never seen meat packing plant before coming here. With these men the packers have succeeded in ac- I complaining a great deal of work, but according to the striker every animal that has been slaughtered since the strike was called has been at fnan- cial loss to the packers, as in the ma jority of cases lack of skilled work men has made it impossible to operate the byproducts department, and this source of revenue, which under normal conditions is clear profit to the pack ers. has been allowed to go to waste. Last week the packers were figuring on a break in the ranks of the strikers when work was resumed this morning, but there was nothing that would indi- cate that the men were even consider ing such step or that they had any l idea of surrendering According to Mi chael J. Donnelly, president of the l Butchers union, the organization 1 which precipitated the strike, the strik- l CTS are in better position than they were one July 12, the day the original l strike was called.
 During the four weeks that the l strike has been in force," said MT. l Donnelly, .tthere have been less than | POO assertions from the various unions whose members have Joined the strug- l gle for living wages, and not one of | these workmen who have gone back to l the packers is as skilled workman. To 1 offset these assertions our men have secured at least twice that number of new recruits from the men the packers l have brought to Chicago to take the 1 strikers places. From a dispute be- 1 tween the packers and butcher work
 men the strike has spread into strug- 1 gle between organized capital and la l bol, but there are not enough men and women on this continent to break this 1 strik despite the assertions of the ] packd that they have nearly all the l work they require and that their | busin about back to it's normal l basis. received assurances from l the n erful labor organizations l throu United States that they 1 are VI this fight and are only I waitig IN representatives from l our u fore them and make ] the rel contributions to our l financS ill be freely made. l Undes Rstances there is l notht.I er, as the victory 1 will | @ end no matter how '
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