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Show STRIKING WORKERS SUFFER HEAVY LOSS Employees of the Westlnghouse Company Com-pany Still Out; Authorities Close Saloons. PITTSBURG, Pa., April 29. Advertisements Adver-tisements in tho afternoon newspapers announcing that the striking employees of the Westinghouse companies had already al-ready lost $650,000 in wages in their offort to enforce the eight-hour day, made up the most important development develop-ment of the most uneventful day since the strike was called a week ago. Reports Re-ports that representatives of the department de-partment of labor at Washington were to confer with officers of the company proved unfounded, and so far as tho public was concerned neither side mode a move to end the strike. Fred "Merrick, who was held for court under $2000 bond on. a charge of inciting incit-ing to riot, was released on bail late in the afternoon, as was Anna Bella, strike leader, who had been arrested for striking strik-ing an electric company office man. An order was Issued by tho county authorities closing the saloons in Brad-dock Brad-dock and McKeesport, to which rdaces it was reported an effort would be made to extend the strike, and in McKes Rocks and Rtowe town shin, where the Pittsburg n"d Lake Erie shops, closed bv ; a st i V e of machinists yesterday, arc 1 located. |