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trade-unions. strikes and lockouts.
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of Alliances are comprised in the Land Organization. — The Branches pay the
Alliance, partly entrance fees, and partly periodical fees for every member. The
guidance of the Alliance work is discharged by the Board of the Alliance (in
places where there are several branches, a Local Board can be started); its
executive officer is a trustee (termed »Förtroendeman» or sometimes
»Expeditionsförande»), to whom, in certain Alliances, must be added a cashier. The supreme
authority in the affairs of the Alliance is the Congress, which meets from time
to time. When a demand for altered conditions of labour, admitted by the
Alliance Board, has not been granted by the employer, and the consequence is
discontinuance of work, the associates enjoy an allowance out of the reserve funds
of the Alliance or from the special fees which at these occasions are taken up
from the members. There are also other provident funds, e. g., aids towards
traveling expenses, burial funds, etc. — The Land Organization, established in
1898, has its executive organ in its Secretaryship, its lower decisive authority
in its Body of Deputies, its higher in the Congress.
A statement of the number of the different Trade Unions and their members
on December 31, 1903, is found in the subjoined Table.
To the Land Organization belong the following:
Mem-
Alliances.
Unions.
Factory workmen..................................84 10,153
Wood workers..........................................120 6,319
Conveyance labonrers........................36 3,316
Brick la vers and Masons................50 2,922
Stone cutters............................................88 2,635
Shoemakers..................................................40 2,560
Tailors....................................................58 2,330
Painters............................................................42 2,250
Founders..........................................................59 1,926
Bakers................................................................48 1,704
Tobacco workers....................................17 1,606
Saw-mill and Lumber-yard
■workers......................................................35 1,550
Tin and Sheet-iron plate
makers................................................................30 1,180
bers.
Alliances.
Unions.
Miners................................................................9 1,138
Tile-stove workmen............................32 1,100
Bookbinders..............................................21 1,019
Chemical-technical workers ... 8 653
Glass workmen........................................17 552
Tramway-men............................................6 531
Leather-workers......................................19 476
Saddle-makers, Upholsterers .. 15 376
Coopers......................................................22 300
Cork cutters................................................3 212
Glove-makers............................................7 182
Confectioners..............................................5 75
Ropers..............................................................3_57
Total 874 47,122
[-Members.-]
{+Mem-
bers.+}
The Trade Unions not comprised in the Land Organization are as follows:
Alliances.
Unions.
Iron and Metal workmen...... lV3 16,773
Typographers...................... 76 4,500
Railway-men...................... 47 3,000
Brewers.............................. 21 2,004
Textile workers................... 14 760
[-Members.-]
{+Mem-
bers.+}
Alliances.
Unions.
Female workers.................. 8 350
Female Glove-makers......................4 300
Gilders and glaziers........................6 200
Unions outside alliances........ 100 3,500
Total SM 31,387
[-Members.-]
{+Mem-
bers.+}
Thus the grand totals are 1,273 Unions with 78,509 members, corresponding
to about 1/i of the total number of industrial workmen and miners of the country
(in the year 1901, representing the latest available figures, amounting to 293,005).
The contingent of these Unions attached to the Land Organization amounted to 69 %
of the total, representing 60 % of the total number of members in the Trade Unions.
For the sake of comparison may here be given some corresponding figures
of older dates. On June 30, 1898, 53,006 workers were registered in Trade Unions
(not counting unions outside alliances), corresponding to about 1/’s of the total
number of industrial workmen of Sweden. On December 31,1900, these Trade Unions
numbered 60,595 members. Comparing with the figure given above for December
31, 1903 — 75,009 — we point out an increase of 42 % since 1898.
However, there is also a movement in Sweden against the amalgamation of
Trade Unions with the Social Democratic party. Among the expressions thereof
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