Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-05-04
SWEDEN.

According to the old-age pension
law Sweden is divided into about $500
pension districts. With population
of about 5,250,00O for the whole king
dom, every pension district approx
mately comprises 1000 persons. About
one-half of these are liable to compul-
sorry contribution. Every Swedish
man and woman above the age of six
teen years is subject to compulsory
insurance until the completion of his
or her sixty-sixth year. The following
are exempted: Persons who are per-
manently incapacitated for work, ev-
cry state employee entitled to pen.
sion, elementary schoolteachers, mem
bers OF the army and navy, ministers
Of religion and the wives of persons
thus exempted. Other persons en-
titled to some other pension may be
exempted by the crown from the liza
bility to pay the contribution. The
pension contribution amounts to 81
cents per annum. This contribution
is increased by 81 cents for incomes
Of from s135 to $216; by $1.35 for in
comes of from $216 to 1924, and by
1910 for incomes of 1924 and over.
The benefits of the insurance consist
In an invalidity pension in the case
Of permanent incapacity for work, or
in an old-age pension on attaining
sixty-seven years of age, even il, in
for work has not yet set in. The an
nual pension amounts to 80 per cent
for men and "a per cent for women of
the total pension contributions paid.
Pensioners who are permanently in
capacitated for work, whose annual in
come does not exceed sS1 (men) or
$77.60 (women) receive an addition to
their pension out of the exchequer,
which, with respect to an annual in
come not exceeding $3.50, amounts
to $4,000 for men and $3.50 for wom-
en-. and decreases with respect to a
higher income by onehalf the annual
income. BY virtue of the voluntary
insurance, every Swedish subject who
has reached fifteen years of age may,
by paying contributions not exceeding
a total amount of 1910 per annum. be-
come entitled to higher pension than
that provided for In the act; with re-
speot to all voluntary contributions
paid within each calendar year, an
amount equal to one-eighth of the said
contribution is added out of the ex-
chequer, the annual amount of the
pension in respect of a man consists
of 11h per cent in the case of volun-
tary contributions, in the case of a
| woman of one-sixth less. All the con-
tributions are paid into pension fund.
The threatened cabinet crisis over
| the war-trade bill has been averted by
an agreement accepted by all the par
ties. The bill passed both chambers
without debate. all parties agreeing.
| The bill is a compromise measure in
that it obliges the authorities to con-
suit experts when violations are to be
prosecuted, and prosecutions can only
be undertaken with the approval Of
the minister of Justice. The bill aims
| to prevent Swedish merchants from
signing declarations or agreements
not in accordance with the neutrality
and dignity of Sweden, or which are
likely to enable foreign powers to con-
troll or influence Swedish trade abroad
| or at home. It provides heavy pun
ishment for the breaking Of any dec
laration of origin or destination given
| to foreign power under the approval
of the Swedish government. All such
declarations will be under control and
supervision of the Swedish authori-
ties, thus giving the foreign power a
REINFORCED guaranty. The original bill
sought to give the government arbi-
trary rights beyond parliamentary con-
| troll regarding all arrangements for
foreign trade and the transit of for
eisa goods through Sweden. Stock
holm dispatches said Premier Ham
marskjold had threatened to resign IL
the bill were not passed without alter
alton.
| The wireless apparatus on board the
Hamburg-American liner Mecklenburg
| lying at Nynas. has been sealed by the
authorities following the alleged dis
covery that the ship has been in daily
communication with Germany and has
been receiving wireless war reports
for foreign vessels. The same action
was taken with regard to all the other
| German boats. Since the outbreak of
the war foreign vessels were forbid
den to use their wireless.
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| The railway department Is going to
build a sawmill with six gangs on
Lovholm island. near Pitea. mainly for
the preparation of ties for the state
railways.
| Doctor Thulin's aeroplane factory
at Landskrona has turned out an aero
plane motor of which every part was
made in Sweden.
The conservative party Is in power
today. with SO members: there are So
liberals. and the socialists number
87-the greatest party in the state.
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