The Scandinavian Lockout and Wage Cutting Campaign
A 1920s analysis reports a broad lockout across Scandinavia with no exemptions including government services. It highlights wage-cut threats of 26 percent, failed Norwegian rail strikes, craft-union caution, rising unemployment in Denmark from 20 000 to 42 000, and a general picture of workers facing intensified hardship.
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Stockholm
Scandinavia
Norway
Denmark
Copenhagum
There is a land where workers own the works
The speaker contrasts ideals of a socialist commonwealth with America, envisioning a country where every child is fed and housed, workers pensioned and free from want, production owned by labor, and art and culture accessible to all, culminating in the assertion that such a Russia-like future will come to America someday.
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America
Russia
What I Saw in Russia by The Toller
A two month survey by the editor of Greatest Labor Paper surveys Russia's conditions. It covers labor, transport, public health, and wartime hardships while praising Soviet Government cultural achievements amid war, pestilence, and blockade.
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Russia
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London Daily Herald