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Show SWEDISH LABOR STRIKE I IS THEME OE THOLIIi t Conditions in Far-North Coun-j try Are Set Out by Organizer. Claea K. Thotin. xen:Ml rrjraauur of the Swttah 4eratlon ot Labor, from Stockholm. Sweden, delivered a lecture in hi native tonjrue to an audlMioe of forty to afty Swede In Unitarian ball Wd need ay evcalnc oa the preaSnt labor Mrlke In Sweden. Translated. Mr. Tho-lln Tho-lln sakt in part: IVFor the (lot lime in hhrtory an American Amer-ican iMhor union, the American Fsdera. I tton of Labor, la tupporllnr flnaticially and morally a strike in not her country. The other day when I spoke before the American holy In Toronto. CTntwda. active measures were at once sdopted to help the Swedlah strikers' with Influence and money (mm Amerirn. The Swcdlah strike besan July S. when the Swedish Kutployers' Meeoclallon Ux-ked out 1M0 men and women, mostly textile workers, who were working ten ttours a day for about $3.W per week for women and aomethlna leas than 15 a week for men. This wa done because tlroen were dull then In Sweden and the employers wnated lo break the workers' union, the Confederation of ttbor. au Umt when ood time, catne again ihe workers work-ers rou Id not enfot ve shorter hours and more my. Thia Confederation of Labor haa been onrnnlsed since 1SSS. "A the kH'kout of lO.ooo workers could not break the confederation, on July S7 the employers locked out tP.eot more, and on Atispift '1 they turned out another an-other 30.600. a total of SO.maj union men. At this, all the workers of Sweden took up the flcht. backed by workers in other countries, and Iftfl.WM) men and women slruek. coverinc ail lines of labor except ex-cept the railroads, the telepraph and the POStlll service. Thia took pUre OH Au-pust Au-pust I and continued until Spte,mber . when the men went ba'k to work except for the Fmiployers' association. "The situation then turned into nn effort ef-fort on the part nf the workers to break up the Employers' ssaorlatlon, and men were allnvveil in jo back to work for the Individual members of the Nssoela-tlon Nssoela-tlon if Uiojm members resigned frm the HssoelHtlrfi. Thia hua laraely broken up Hie ICniployers' aaeoelathui. ill! today only fcu.oon men are on strike. "Germnny4 workers have aeut up 40. 00. the Pine sent $IXfl.W0. Norway aent Jlfift.Oftn and America, has ent ?J.-OflO. ?J.-OflO. I am in tliia country raise funds to win the strike. If the strike la not aonu ended 20.POO men will leave Sweden Swe-den for America and Australia. In the spring:, never to return." |