Tooele Times | 1910-09-03 | Page 2 | Cloak Makers Win

CLOAK WIN ONE OF THE GREATEST STRIKES IN HISTORY OF GARMENT MAKING COMES TO END loss in wages alone has exceeded ten million dollars during nine months struggle between workers and employers pl new york the cloak makers strike one of the greatest industrial disturbances in the history of american labor was settled friday night seventy thousand garment workers who have been idle for nine months will return to work ten thousand and those dependent upon them fifty thousand souls in all were on the point of eviction and hundreds had already been forced on to the streets the industrial loss to employers and employees has run high into the millions in loss of wages alone the total has been estimated at more than while the loss to manufacturers jobbers and retailers the coutney over has been computed at ten times that amount in spite of the stupendous readjustment estment involved the strike has been in the main notable for peacefulness ful ness there were numerous cases of petty disorder and a petition of the manufacturers brought forth fr from justice goff of the state supreme eme court an injunction on in which he ruled that any strike called to demand the closed shop was in res restraint raint of trade