The St. Johns herald., 1901-06-29
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 Cooking is taught in 23O girls schools in Germany.
 At Cleveland the Consumers League
 will demand better wages and sanitary
 conditions for women dry goods clerks.
 During 1900 the Iron MOlders' Union
 or North America paid to its members
 In sick benefits alone the sum of S1O2--
 935.
 1 The Journeymen Bakers and COnfec-
 toners' International Union, nearly 5O.-
 OOO strong, will make a general demand
 for ten-hour day. Members are now
 working twelve to sixteen hours daily.
 A bill protecting union labels. which
 Is pending in the Legislature of Penn sylvania, provides that a fine of from
 $1OO to $1,0O0 may be imposed upon
 anyone illegally using the label of any
 labor organization.
 Equal wages for men and women. | who perform like labor are provided by bill now before the Legislature Of
 Missouri. A violation of the act, should
 it become law, will constitute a mis-
 demeanOr and be punishable by a fine
 of $1O to $1OO.
 Six labor organizers, who were lead
 CTS in the late Pennsylvania coal min ers' strike in the Georges Creek region. and who were sentenced to terms in the house of correction by the Allegheny county courts on the charge of melting to riot during the strike, have regained their freedom through habeas-eOFpus proceedings.
 General Secretary Horace NJ. Eaton, of the Boot and Shoe Workers Union, reports the formation of eight new unions and ten new factories using the Union stamp. Eight hundred and forty two new members were registered, and the total receipts was $4,91L73. or an increase of 15 per cent, as over any pre- viOuS month.
 General Secretary Frank Heenan, of the Brotherhood of Painters and Dee orators, reports the formation of six teen new unions; two unions reinStated. two unions consolidated, seven suspend ed and one lapsed. An agreement be tween the painters and wOOdwOrkeE has been made whereby the woodwork CTS will control all vanishing work iE the factory, and the painters will con trOl all vanishing outside the factory.
 The American Equal Wage Union proposes to remedy present conditions by legislation. Among the laws pro posed are: Prohibiting the employment of girls under 16 years and boys under F years in any kind of mercantile OI manufacturing work. Restriction of the of females in any field of labor. Minimum wages to be paid fe- males to be fixed at S1 per day. While agitating for the passage of the above laws the members of the union will endeavor to secure for women the wages paid men in the same occupation.
 At Buffalo. N. r., Justice KrauSe. in the suit of Andrew RuhIand against August Jasuau, as President of the Masters Union, No. 50. dismissed the The suit was brought by NIT. Ruhland 10 recover damages for Sus- pension from the union for the period of six months. The Court held that the union, governed by a proper constitu- ton and bylaws. hds the right to sus- pend it's members for violation of it's rules, and that the union cannot be held responsible even should the sus- pended members be kept out of work for the whole period of their suspen- sion.
 "One characteristic of the coal min er," said member of the mine work ers' organization, ''is to transmit the occupation from sire to son, through many generations, until they have be- come almost distinct class by them selves, and which their peculiar sur have only served to empha- size. Thus we find that the new Presi- lent of the Illinois miners, W. R. Rus 'ell, who has just assumed office, began working in the mines at the age of Q years, and has filled all stations from he lowest to the most responsible, until low he is the chief of the organization n the great Illinois coal field.T