Willmar tribune., 1909-10-20
SWEDEN.

SWEDEN.
Thirty men will soon be added e
the police force Of Stockholm.
4 number Of Japanese engineer
are visiting the iron furnaces o1
Sweden.
A black hare was shot by a farme,
named Arvid Johannsson, at Hagby
Smaland.
Twenty new Watchmen will soon
be appointed to do service along the
boundary lire Of Finland.
Many laborers have used labor or
gans for printing their names and
scolded them for being "strikebreak
ers."
About 5000 pheasants were killed
In Skane last year, and this year the
birds seem to be more plentiful than
ever.
The annual consumption Of sugar
in Sweden is about 117.000 tons, or
46 pounds for every man, woman and
child.
A Russian squadron has been stop.
ping at Malmo, and the reception Civ.
en- By the people Of tho city to the
officers was very cordial. The Rus.
SLAMS were also thoroly thawed out
by the ardent kndness Of their hosts
and 1oetesse1.
Stoekholm, Sweden.-The arbitra'
ton undertaken BY the Swedish gov
srnmeut to settle The dispute between
the employers unjon and the confed-
eration u labor, has failed chiefly on
account q the pvoposal to settle fa.
turo disputes by arbitration. A re.
newal AZ the general strike is conse.
quently fssred. In any event tho
postponement Of the resumption Of
work viii entail great suffering on
the $4,000 men still idle.
Miss AIMS JonsDea, Of Slimminge,
was IN ideal Of q Scandinavian girl.
tall and stately aRd blonde, with q
pair of sky-blue eyes. Lieutenant
Beno Won Bottle, rich officer in the
German navy, happened to see Anna.
and from that moment no Swede
needed to apply The wedding took
place in Nalme . short time ago.
The groom bought . snug home Id.
cluding ton acres of eood land for
5000 at Slimmtnge, and his mother
in-1aw was asked to settle for good in
that home. The htteg is widow,
and far from rieit-
Hans Anderssou q skffarp, prom
1nent business n1n. soys about the
great strike and fts results: THE
most important lesson which l think
the great strike has taught us is,
that tho authorities and the common
citizens Of the Kingdom, by calmness
and . united determination to main.
tain order and to keep the ordinary
functions Of soeiety IN regular opera
tion, can prevent the success Of q
national strike, 20 that no one needs
70 fear the threats Of such a strike
n the future. It has also shown ua
how the impeIious but irresponsible
leaders Of cur workingmen miserably
60 from ceuntry to country, begging
for aid to- support the workingmen in
stead Of Joining these and proudly
making IN honest living. And finally
II teaches that agreements without
legal force are virtually useless, and
that laws must be passed for putting
our industrial life. on . safe and sound
footing"
The following news item from Hels
ingborg shows the influence Of the
labor organizations even among othel
societies. Herman Sjoholm was 4
member of q Good Templar lodge
but he had never belonged to any
labor organization. Last summer ht
was out Of work for some time, ant
during the strike he obtained a posi-
ton on the street railways. He wa,
told that the position was q new one
30 that he did not take the place O
q striker. A few days after he com
menced to work he was visited by ,
deputation from lodge 249, Fridshjal
ten (the hero Of liberty and urgei
to withdraw from the lodge becaus,
he was q strikebreaker. In order t,
avoid an impending demonstration q
the next meeting Of the lodge he de
cided to withdraw. At first he though
of joining some other lodge in tn
city, but such a fuss has been mad
about the matter that there is n
show for him.
Pile dwellings 1000 years old, sim
liar to those discovered In the nortl
Of Switzerland, have been unearthe
In q swamp on the plateau east O
Vettern, 120 miles northwest of Stocl
holm. The excavations disclosed pei