Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-02-28
NORWAY.

VUTIeO o. i've Teluueer, SIX OF the AMI.
mails going to America and the bal
ance to Germany and Hungary.
In Sagfjord the herring have been
standing SO thick in the water that
they could be taken out with an ordi-
nary hand dip net by people standing
In boats or even on the shore.
The commune of transferred and
Hovind has made use Of its preroga-
tive to buy the Reisjaa and Daarud
forests, which had just been sold to a
private concern for $4,000. The prop
erty covers an area of $500 acres.
The twenty-seventh of December
was sad day for the settlements of
Tingvoll and Stromsnesset. In the
forenoon Nils Grimstad was lost on
storvandet, lake that he intended
to cross. Peder Meisingset, a young
man, went to skate on Hanem lake,
Ind he was drowned in an airhole.
While two little girls at Aspas were
playing during their mothers absence
In the stable they found a match. and
started fire which resulted in the
OOoSA VI WIG Va SAOAs
Statistics based on reports from
30 per cent of the 81, 900 persons en-
ployed in the main industries of Nor
way show that in the year 1910 the
men received an average of liz cents
m hour, boys 5A cents, and women
5h cents an hour, the average being
about 9 rs cents an hour. The aver
age number Of hours per week being
b7.S, the average daily pay was almost
D6 cents. Those employed in the
printing trade received the highest
pay, namely, 16 Is cents per hour
AS rule, the higher the pay per hour
the smaller the number of hours per
week, which tended to reduce the Diff
ference in wages in the different
trades. Over AZ per cent of the total
wages was paid for piece work.
Norway faces a threatening situa-
ton in the labor world. Hitherto the
Socialist party during any strike or
lockout has never gone to any excess
worth mentioning, and the conflicts al
ways have been brought to a peaceful
end. This desirable state Of affairs
apparently is on the verge of change.
At all events, q strong fight Is raging
within the party to have violence rec
ognized as a legitimate means of en-
forcing the claims of laborers against
employers. A young journeyman
painter and journalist named Martin
Tranmal is the man who has raised
this fight. After learning his trade in
Trondhjem he emigrated to America,
where he worked at his trade for some
years. He there came in contact with
union labor leaders of the revolution
ary type. After returning to Trond-
hjem he became a member of the edi-
torial staff of the socialistic paper,
Nytid New Age), and began to propa-
gate the ideas he had acquired in
America. Mr.. Tranmal suggested in
public speech that machines and
tools be destroyed, and that dynamite
be forgotten" in the mines so that
'tscabs" will not dare to work there
A proposition embodying this policy
was defeated by the labor unions of
Trondhjem, but in Kristiania similar
proposition was carried by a majority
Of II. All the old leaders spoke against
the proposition as cowardly and fatal
to the true cause of labor. This Incl.
dent is soaring the people of the
farming communities out of the Social
Democratic party.
Several members of the cabinet
have resigned owing to a disagree
ment between the Rightists and the
Moderates. The resigned members
include the minister Of foreign affairs,
y. Irgens; minister Of justice, H.
Scheel: commerce, B. Braenne; de.
tense, Col. K. S. Bull; cults and pub.
lie instruction, J. Kvigstad.
At a meeting Of the directors of the
Lillehammer Savings bank it was de-
cided to let women who deposit money
in the bank vote to the same extent
as male depositors. But the meeting
defeated motion to make the women
eligible to offices in the corporation