Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-07-01

CuC 1dplulIy Will WHICH IL duuS ny
figures is enough to make the old
timer dizzy.
The Social Democratic convention
of Sweden passed resolutions against
and in favor of a gradual
reduction of the military burdens, Of
of compulsory courts of
of permanent Scandina-
Wan neutrality and of vigorous inter-
national cooperation between the Ia
Dor organizations against war.
Three firemen in the Malmo leather
factory caused great disturbance by
quitting work June 5. Their contract
with the employers expired on that
day, and the two parties failed to
reach an agreement, for the future.
They had been receiving 1888 a week,
and they asked $7.65 a week for this
year and $500 a week for next year.
The employers offered $6.75 a week
this year and $7.65 a week next year,
but the three men remained firm. 1t
would have been easy to get other
men at the old wages, but the en-
ployers decided to close the factory
instead of mourning the Odium of be-
ing accused of employing ''scabs."
There were many idle men in the city
before, and this incident added 400
persons to the army of unemployed.
The Swedish Employers Association
will try to settle the conflict.
Edward Wavrinsky, member of the
riksdag, temperance worker and gen.
eral reformer and philanthropist, re-
Gently said in an interview: The
next riksdag will pass for the second
time the universal suffrage bill, with
its provisions for proportional repre-
sentation The bill will then become
law, and the following election VIII
take place under its provisions. The
first effect will be to increase the rep
resentation in the lower chamber of
both Socialists and Conservatives at
the expense of the Liberals. However,
as compensation, the Liberals and
Socialists will now for the first time
secure adequate representation in the
upper chamber, so that practically the
political complexion of both chambers
will be the same The changes that
will be wrought in political and social
conditions in Sweden by universal suf
frage will be tremendous For in
stance, in the matter of temperance
legislation, rapid progress will now
be possible. One question that must
be decided upon my return to Sweden
by the Good Templar order is whether
it will take an active and direct part
in political affairs or continue TO work
through the other party organizations
1t is not our purpose and plan to at
tempt too much at once. We hope
to popularize the local veto first and
thus drive the liquor traffic out of the
rural districts and the small villages.
In this way we shall build a solid
foundation, and within a comparative
ly short time be ready to bring about
national prohibition in such way that
the work will be permanent
NORWAY.
The storting has made an appropri-
alton for new library building at the
University of Norway.
An indiscretion on the part of some
soldiers of the guard in Kristiania
gave the people chance to show
their feelings toward men of the army.
The origin of the trouble was highly
ludicrous. June Sth was set aside as
"children's day." and all sorts of fun
ny schemes were employed as means
of raising money for the poor children
Of the city. The driver of a con-
named Ingeborg Sather, who was
dressed as a soldier of the infantry,
and inside the float were some other
young ladies dressed as nurses and
holding babies in their arms. This
arrangement suggested the traditional
fondness of soldiers for nurses, and
as the float passed near group of
soldiers of the guard they stepped up
to the float, stopped it and proceeded
to remove the uniform worn by Miss
Sather, in order to show that they re-
scented what they looked upon as an
insult to their calling. In few Sec
Onds the public was seized with fit
of rage on account of the action of
the soldiers, and a free-for-all fight
was the result. Many persons re.
ceived slight injuries. The police
succeeded in separating the two par
ties. AS the soldiers reached their
quarters, however, the crowd was
close enough to lombard the barracks
with stones until there was hardly a
single window left in the building.
The feeling against the soldiers proved
to last longer than the excitement of
an ordinary street row. Without any
fresh provocation a great throng of
people gathered the next evening in
the neighborhood of the barracks of
the guard, and the damage done by
the smashing Of windows amounted
to several hundred dollars. The
newspapers agree that the soldiers of
the guard who caused these demon
STATIONS have done great injury to
the prestige of the army.
Queen Maude of Norway has innu-
merable hobbies and recreations,
many of them being of very useful
and practical nature. She devotes
many hours to sewing, wood carving
and bookbinding, and in regard to the
latter work has turned out some really
beautiful specimens of the craft.
Like Queen Alexandra, her mother,
Queen Maud is very skillful with the
camera, while such is her skill in out
door sports that she is her husbands
constant companion when his majesty
INDUCES in skating, skiing, motoring