Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1909-09-25
1IDINCS FROM
SCANDINAVIA
Interesting News from Sweden,
Norway and Denmark.
STOCKHOLM WOMEN THRIFTY

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Positions as Ticket Sellers and Col
iectors on the Street Cars and One
Says She Would Like To Be Cab
Driver-"If a German Woman Can
Do 1t, Why Not Swedish Woman?"
SWEDEN.
The women of Stockholm are an en-
terprising lot. Several of them have
applied for positions as ticket sellers
and collectors on the street cars and
there is one woman who says that she
would like to be cab driver. She
says that when she visited Berlin late
" she saw several women who were
cab drivers and if a German woman
can do it why not a Swedish woman 2"
Another lady stated her case to a
newspaper representative as follows:
81 don't see why woman could not
sell and collect tickets and punch a
hole in their corners as well as the
men. have applied for such a posi-
ton and I believe that l would enjoy
the work very much. Then just think
what a pleasant sight it would be to
see woman collecting and punching
tickets on a street car. Everybody
would be interested in seeing smil-
ing face and a trim figure" It is pos
sible that this young woman may get
the position that she is looking for aft
er the strike has been settled.
A dispatch states that the strike
situation is calming down considera'
bly, and that there are no new develop
ments. There is this significant fact,
however, and that is that the railway
passenger traffic is only about one
half of what it used to be and but lit
tie freight is moving. The losses sus-
tanned by the transportation compa-
MES is described as being something
enormous. The Aftonblade asserts
that the strikers are actually starving,
and that many are subsisting on bread
and water and fish caught in the archi-
pelago. Again there are a number OF
men who are tramping about in the
country robbing the potato fields. The
situation is at all events far from sat
isfactory and there may be more
trouble in store ere perfect peace can
be restored.
The cabinet has decided not to sub
NIT to the courts the labor conflict
which led to the strike. The Saliva
ton Army states that the distress in
the homes of the workingmen who are
striking is terrible. Many laborers
have pawned most of their belongings,
and their families either have no food
or get only one meager meal day.
They are also afraid that their land
lords will eject them. The strikers
dare not and can not turn to the poor
department, but depend upon the Sal
walton Army, which is preventing an
actual famine. According to govern
ment reports, 211,0 89 persons are strik-
ing, while the strike leaders claim
that the number exceeds 100000.
The Swedish consul in Tunis urges
the Swedish government to establish
direct steamship communication be.
tween Tunis and Sweden and thus Sc.
cure splendid market for Swedish
export goods. Direct steamship lines
are maintained with this country by
Germany, Italy and Denmark. The
way things are running now all Swed-
ish export goods bound for Tunis mus,
be reloaded in Hamburg, Germany.
This causes much delay and other ma
tons have chance to get ahead OF
Sweden in sending their goods to that
country. Tt is very possible that the
government will act soon on the con-
suPs suggestion.
The Observation-Disclosures society,
whose purport Is to bring about closer
relations between the people of Scan
dinavia and the Scandinavian-Ameri-
cans, have sent three students, viz,
the Swede, Harald Erbing, from Dor.
as; the Norwegian, Haakon Thyri,
from Christiania and the Dane, Trode-
hjems from Copenhagen, to Pittsburg,
Pa, where they will be students at the
Carnegie Technical institute.
John Svanberg, the Swedish Mara
thon runner, arrived in Stockholm last
month and was met at the Central
depot by a large crowd of people and
was given most enthusiastic recep-
ton. On the evening of his arrival
he was rendered a banquet and recep.
ton by the Stockholm Athletic club
1t has been practically impossible
to hire any man to keep watch at the
powder and dynamite storehouse in
Soderhamn AS much as fifty cents
an hour has been offered several men,
but they point blank refuse to serve.
In one way we certainly do not blame
them.
The strike has also seriously affect
ed the marriage market. But few per
sons have dared to take the important
step during these troublesome times.
The Duchess of Sodermanland. ac-
companied by Price Lennart and
Grand Duke Dimitri Pavlovisf, arrived
from st. Petersburg last month.
NORWAY.
DR.. Frederick A. Cook was greeted