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Show CLOAK IB WIN j ONE OF THE GREATE8T 8TRIKE8 1 IN HISTORY OF GARMENT MAKING COMES TO END. j Loss In Wages Alono Has Exceeded 1 Ten Million Dollars During Nine Months Struggle Between 70,000 Workers and Employers. Em-ployers. New York. The cloak makers' j strike, one of tho greatest InduB-trial InduB-trial disturbances in tho history or 'DI American labor, was settled Friday ( night. Seventy thousand garment workers who liavo beon idle for nlno months, will return to work. Ton 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 tho streets. The Industrial loss to employers and employees has run high into tho millions. In loss of wages alono tho total has been estimated at more than $10,000,000, while the loss to manufacturers, Jobbers and retailers Uio coutnry over has been computed at ten times that amount. In spite of the stupendous readjustment read-justment Involved, the strike has been In the main notable for peace-fulness. peace-fulness. Thero were numerous cases of. petty disorder, and a petition of the manufacturers brought forth rrom. Justice Goff of the state supreme court an Injunction in which ho ruled that any strike called to demand tho closed shop was In restraint of tradb. |