The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-10-15
SWEDEN HAS WAY
TO BANN|SH STRIKES
Both Employers and En-
ployes Have a Great
Organization
THEY SOLVE ALL
LABOR DISPUTES
Swedish Employers Association Con-
trolls Working Conditions in Every
Industry-Swedish Delegates Explain
the System-An Eight Hour Day.

the System-An Eight-Hour Day.
NEW YORK, Oct 15.-They do it
better in Sweden, according to Hjalmar
Won Sydow, general manager of the
Employers Association of Sweden, and
Herman Lindqvist, leader of the Swed-
ish Trade Union party and speaker of
the lower house of parliament, both
of whom are here to attend the inter
national labor conference which will
meet Oct. % in Washington. Accord
ing to these chiefs of the capital and
labor interests on the Scandinavian
peninsula, both the necessary parties to
| organized industry have achieved in
Sweden q degree of cooperation which
might be followed to advantage in the
| United States
In discussing labor conditions in his
native country Mr.. Won Sydow said:
1.-THE Swedish employers association
| includes about two thirds of the whole
! Swedish trade and thus as a matter of
course takes the initiative in the re-
| lations of all business to labor. In each
| branch of industry, for instance, min
ing, the employers are associated in a
union and all these unions together
form the Swedish Employers associa-
! ton.
No employer, no employers union,
can make an agreement with the work
ers without the consent of the Swedish
Employers association, and so this as
| Snaiatinn ahta 70 onn+ro1 l.; n,
conditions of every industry.
1.-The situation has parallel on the
labor side, where there is mighty
which is Herman Lindqvist, for whom
the employers have great respect.
The fact that working conditions
are settled not after temporary display
of power by one side or the other, but
after certain general principles have
been carried out to decisive action, in
wolves many advantages.
"The employers and workers or
carnations represent .eontending inter
ests, certainly, with different points of
view, but they have one thing in COM
mon-they must work for the develop
ment of industrial life, because if eco
nomical conditions become disturbed
| the NOIhtfS COuulIiOu Will become
worse.
.'The great organizations on both
sides have learned to respect one anoth.
er and cooperation between them is
growing better and better. So the pos
sibilities of preserving peace have in.
: creased. Especially after the outbreak
of the war both employers and workers
: endeavored to maintain order in indus
try and upon the whole they succeed
ed. -
Speaking from the standpoint of la
Dor, Mr.. Lindqvist said
4 ''The Swedish trade union movement
t is centralized in the National Trad,
Union association. This large organic
: alton, which in 1909 participated in {
: gigantic struggle, 100000 workers tax
b ing part, has had an imposing develop
ment and numbered on July l, this year
more than 100000 members, $4,000 be
ing women. The whole trade unto,
movement in Sweden counts about 300,
e 900 members.
The Swedish trade unions have al
ways worked on constitutional groun,
. and in intimate cooperation with tn
:: Swedish Social Democratic party, an,
! so the Swedish working class has bee
= able TO unite It's powers at the variou
elections. AS a consequence of tina
: they now have majorities in many mu
/ nicipal representative assemblies.
= "The advance of the working elias
- - has fastened social legislation. Thu
= we have solved the question of old ag
and disability pensions and we hav
also secured a modern law concernin
accident insurance. A bill about il
= ness insurance is prepared and will b
- passed at the next parliamentary ses
: sion, and a committee has been charge
with the responsibility of preparing
proposal about unemployment measure
: Last, but not least, 1 must mentio
that the question of most vital impoI
lance for the working class, the regul: