The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-02-22
NORWAY.

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ported "a live reindeer, 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 it's preroga-
tive to buy the Reisjaa and Daarud
forests, which had just been sold to a
private concern for 100000. The prop
erty covers an area of $500 acres.
The twenty-seventh of December
was a sad day for the settlements of
Tingvoll and S~tromsnesset. In the
forenoon Nils Grimstad was lost on
~Storvandet, a lake that he intended
to cross. Peder Meisingset, a young
man, went to skate on Hanem lake,
and 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 a fire which resulted in the
death of one of them.
Statistics based on reports from
80 per cent of the $1,000 persons en-
ployed in the main industries of Nor
way show that in the year 1910 the
men received an average of 11k cents
an hour, boys 5A cents, and women
5k cents an hour, the average being
about 9 4-5 cents an hour. The aver
age number of hours per week being
57.S, the average daily pay was almost
IS cents. Those employed in the
printing trade received the highest
. pay, namely, 16 is cents per hour.
AS a 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
ways have been brought to a peaceful
end. This desirable state OF affairs
apparently is on the verge of a change.
At all events, a 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
T%rondhjem 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.
airy type: After returning to Trond.
hjem he became a member of the edi
torial staff of the socialistic paper
Nytid tNew Age), and began to propa
gate the ideas he had acquired in
America. Mr.. Tranmal suggested in
a public speech that machines an6
tools be destroyed, and that dynamite
be forgotten in the mines so thai
"scabs" will not dare to work there
A proposition embodying this policy
was defeated by the labor unions Of
Trondhjem, but in Kristiania a similar
proposition was carried by a majority
Of II. All the old leaders spoke agains'
the proposition as cowardly and fata
to the true cause Of labor. This Incl
dent is soaring the people Of thu
farming communities out of the Socia
Democratic party.
Several members of the cabine
have resigned owing to a disagree
ment between the Rightists and tn
Moderates. The resigned member,
include the minister of foreign affairs
J.. Irgens; minister of justice. II
Scheel; commerce. p. Braennc; de
fense.. Col. X S. Bull; cults and put
lie instruction. J.. Kvigstad.
At a meeting of the directors of tn
Lillehammer Savings bank it was dc
cided to let women who deposit none,
in the bank vote to the same eXten
as male depositors. But the mcetin;
defeated a motion to make the womel
eligible to Offices in the corporation
-f-l .t- r--f 1910"