The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-04-15


Pay-Indications Point to Serious
Labor Troubles This Spring.
SWEDEN.
The street cleaning force went on
strike the other day and refused to
work unless they received three
crowns a day. They were receiving
two and one-half crowns a day and
that is all that the city council can
afford to pay at present, when the city
treasury is practically empty. A
couple of weeks ago there was lots Of
snow to be cleaned off the streets, but
just at this time the street force began
to strike. A number of them were in
duced to go about their work at the
old pay, but this was done under diff
fculties and the police had to inter-
Vene several times during the day.
These are men, too, who are sorely in
need of employment, as they have had
no work for long time. Although
there are hundreds of laboring men
who expect to go to work when spring
opens up, there are already plenty Of
indications that there is going to be
lots of trouble In nearly every
branch of industry the striking mas
tiers are ready to urge the men to
strike for higher wages. This is in
deed a deplorable condition when
there are so many families who are
practically starving.
There are 5,41S miles of railways
owned by private capital in Sweden at
present and 2,607 miles of railway
owned by the state. Although the
state railways only have half as much
mileage as those controlled by private
capital, the income of the two is very
nearly equal. For the year 1908, the
income of the two is very nearly
equal. For the year 1908, the income
for the private railways was 63,224,2S5
crowns and for the state railways it
was 81, al ,213 crowns.
The government has been investi-
eating the cost of changing the rail-
way that runs from the iron ranges in
the north to the Norwegian frontier
into an electric railway. Two compa-
MES have figured on the contract, and
both bids approximate close to three
and a half million dollars for building
the necessary power houses and put
ting up the poles and the wires. It
is not yet definitely decided whether
the change will be made at present.
An Upsala dispatch states that an
international book thief was recently
captured in trying to dispose of some
valuable books to Upsala university.
stolen from Leigzig, Germany, univer-
sity library. 1t was found that he
also had in his possession books stolen
from Goteborg national library. He
had as an accomplice young English
woman
About week ago the Swedish Acad-
envy of Sciences presented Charles Fl.
Graves, the American envoy, the
Adelskold medal in gold, which Mr..
Graves was requested to forward to
Thomas Alva Edison as a RECOGNITION
OF his Invention of the graphophone
and OF his many other inventions in
the sphere of electric light.
The Swedish iron industry will be
deliberately represented at the interna:
tional exhibition, which will be held in
TOXIC, Japan, in the near future. All
immense iron figure representing diff
ferent uses of Swedish iron has been
sent from Stockholm to Japan recent
1y and will be placed in the polytechnic
institute in Toxic.
The city authorities of Stockholm
nave estimated the years improve
1nents for the city, and find that the
funds available fall short some 3d.
oOO,OOO of covering the expenses of
the work planned. The city will bor-
row what money it needs to complete
such work as is considered most neces-
Sary.
An exchange tells us that there is
prospect that Sweden and Norway
Will furnish the granite for the new
1ortl1lcatlons at Forsyth, England. as
they can furnish the stone several
thousand dollars cheaper than Eng
land herself can. The contract calls
for S5OO,OO0 worth of granite.
Queen Victoria reached Nan1es
about March 16 and continued the
Journey to Capri, where she has been
soJourning during the past two weeks.
The queens health is already reported
as being much improved. Her males
ty has never been able to endure the
rigorous northern winters. ..
Ragnar Sahlin, we'll known youns
Stockholm actor, died a few days ago,
aged thlrty-two years, leaving a wife
and one child. Sahlin was for Num-
per OF years a member of Siguard
Sandberg's Theatrical company and
appeared in the principal cities of tho
country.
NORWAY.
Some time ago an anti-emigration
society was organized in NORWAY