Willmar tribune., 1909-10-06
SWEDEN.

ished.
SWEDEN.
The Stockholm exposition gave a
surplus instead of an expected deficit.
The market quotations of the stocks
of some of the leading mining con-
Germs in Sweden rose enormously at
the close of the strike.
The export of lingon (red berries)
is so heavy from southern Sweden to
Germany this fall that an extra freight
train must be run to Trelleborg every
day.
Over 250 boys have applied for ad-
mission to the first class at the NAL
mo high school of technology, and
only 125 of them can be accommo-
dated.
The railway department turned only
$4,000 into the national treasury in
August, as compared with 100000 in
July. This immense difference was,
of course, due to the strike.
The former employees of the Stock
holm Streetcar company have offered
to pay the company for the damages
caused it's property during the recent
strike, on condition that all the strik-
ers be re-employed.
All those who were opposed to the
strike are now thankful because the
government did not interfere as a
mediator. It is argued that COM
promise would have only paved the
way for similar conflict in the near
future, but that struggle fought to
the finish like the one which actu-
ally took place is supposed to have
taught the labor leaders the futility of
an attempt to tie up all kinds of ac-
tivity in the country.
A carpenter at Morrum named Pet
erson was an employer and an en-
ploye in one person. When the strike
came the man felt something like
schism within himself But he finally
yielded to the propensity of the
employe, and quit work. Time soon
became burden to him, hours
seemed like weeks. He would like
awfully we'll to go to work again. But
a gentleman and man of honor like
Carpenter Peterson of Morrum did
not want to be "strikebreaker" with
out due cause. So he went to work
and evolved a scheme: going to the
headquarters Of the nearest labor
union he spoke somehow in this wise:
am on strike; but I am going to
work again unless 1 get minimum
contribution from the strike fund.
Not much! was the prompt answer,
and employe Peterson again went to
work for employer Peterson with a
good conscience.
At Falun are the headquarters of
a mining company with history so
remote that the date of it's origin can
not be definitely fixed. In pamphlet
recently issued, dealing with the his
tory of the company, it modestly pro-
fesses to be lone of the oldest COM
panies in the W0rld.' It's iron and
steel works are now concentrated at
Domnarfvet. It is the oldest stock
company In Scandinavia and one of
the Oldest in the world. An original
purchase deed of 1888 had to do with
a sale of stock in the company, and
charters given by King Magnus of
Sweden and Norway are dated Feb.
"a, 1347. At that time the company's
rights granted by King Magnus' pred
ecessors were referred to as very old.
The original business was the manu-
featuring Of copper, and the mine at
Falun, "Stora Kopparberget" (the
great copper mountain), has been con-
tinuously worked for nearly 700 years.
In this time it has yielded about $780,
900 tons of copper, 1.55 tons Of silver
and IL tons of gold, the whole repre-
senting value Of about $270,000, 900.
Hinke Bergegren, the great Social
list hero, left Sweden when the great
strike started. He is said to have
found out that husky young fellow
was ready to give him sound lick
ing of the kind that Hinke was in the
habit of recommending for the en-
ployers.
The government has been COM
PEELED to order an extra steamer to
carry lingon (red berries) from. Trel-
leborg, Sweden, to Sassnitz, Germany.
A number Of capitalists have CON-
menced to raise money for the build
ing Of a dry dock at Kalmar.
Four young men accosted clergy.
man who has defended the dogma of
the devil, while he was walking along
the streets in Malmo, and one of them
said point blank that there was no
longer a hell because it had been
abolished. He looked kindly at them
and said: II am really sorry for
you. for now you have no home. Here
is a Krone CT cents) for each Of
you." They actually took the money
and walked quietly away.
The Conservatives Of Sundsvall
elected their candidate fer q. seat in
The stneeG