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Show GREAT STRIKE ON IN NEW YORK CITY New York, Aug 1.1 The striking cloakmakers in New York City number num-ber more than 80,000 men and women, wom-en, according to a brief submitted to the supreme court here by their employers, em-ployers, who seek to have the union rcftralned by a permanent Injunction The manufacturers ask the court to declare the strike unlawful, on tho ground that the workers are maintaining main-taining an Illegal combination in tdriking against the open shop. The plalntlfff, according to the representations represen-tations made to the court, who pro-j pro-j duce Sit per cent of the cloaks, suits ; and skirts manufactured in the I'nit- I'd States, and the investments of the j employers represent between $30,000,- oiai and ?GO,ouo.uoO. J "Because of the- Immeuse capital arid the number of persons involved,' . the lawyers declare, ' the Issues In this contei-t are Ihe most important I ever Involved in a strike.' The man ufactiircrs are In a state of terror, and if I he injunction Is not Issued the strikers soon will be practically In control of the cloak-making Ihisi-ness. Ihisi-ness. The situation is one bordering on anarchy." Counsel for lh& union leaders say. In opposition to the grauting of the ln- Junction, that it would practically j wipe nut trades unions iu this state. ; They declare that the strikers are act- in;; wiihln their rights in refusing to I I work with non-union' men. and also in trying by peaceable means to induce non-union men to juin the ranks.' The court will announce its d'-cis-ion in a few days |