The Bourbon news., 1904-08-09
THE STRIKERS UPHELD.
All Chicago Unions Will Give
Moral and Financial Aid.
The Membership Numbers Nearly 3oo,-
o00-Each Member to Be Assessed
a Small Amount Each Week,
Creating Large Fund.

Chicago, Aug. 5.-The packers ON
Thursday introduced a distinct nov
city in strike-breaking- train load Of
immigrants said to be direct from FL
lis island. The immigrants were un-
loaded at obscure spots about the
yards and were smuggled in groups Of
ten or twelve to the various depart
ments where the newcomers were put
to work This took place while rep
resentatives of the packers were reit-
Grating the declaration made Wednes-
day that scores of applicants for work
are being turned away because only
skilled men are being offered employ
ment.
There was no mistaking the immi-
grants who compose the latest acqui-
sitions to the packers force besieged
in the stOckyards.
The recruits were loaded down with
boxes. bags and bundles wrapped in
cloths, all speaking eloquently of Med
iterranean points. Others carried big
grips and some few the small box-like
trunks frequently seen in the luggage
of steerage passengers from Baltic
ports.
Jealously clinging to these precious
possessions and staggering under their
weight, the immigrants were quietly
taken from central points to the de.
partments where the imported men
entered upon active duty
Chicago, Aug. 8.-All the labor un-
ions In Chicago have endorsed the
stockyards strike After listening to
the strikers side of the controversy,
which was presented to them by Mi
chael j: Donnelly, president of the
striking butchers union, the Chicago
Federation of Lab9r, which is COM
posed of every labor organization in
Chicago, and has membership Of
nearly 100000, adopted resolutions
Sunday night 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 fami-
lies during the struggle with the pack
ers. The exact amount each member
is to be assessed was left in the hands
of a committee with orders to report
results Monday. While the officials
of the federation of labor were unable
Sunday night to give an exact esti-
mate 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 lasted for near.
stockyards strike seems to be as re-
mote as at any time since the strug-
gle for supremacy began. Neither
side to the conflict during all this
time has shown any signs of weaken
ing.
The packers, while claiming that
they will soon have their affairs in
normal condition again, SO successful
have they been in securing non-union
workmen, still admit that so far they
have been able to get but $50 of their
old employees back and that the major
ity of their men are unskilled work
ers. 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 ma
jority of them having never seen a
meat packing plant before coming
here. With these men the packers
have succeeded in accomplishing a
great deal of work, but according to
the strikers, 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, lack of skilled workmen has
made it impossible. to operate the by
products department and this source
of revenue, which under normal con-
ditions is a clear profit to the pack
ers, has been allowed to go to waste.