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Swedish Sailors and Coalers Union

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Swedish Sailors' and Coalers' Union
Svenska sjömans- och eldareförbundet
Split intoSwedish Seamen's Union, Coalers' Union.
Founded1899
Dissolved1914
Location
Key people
Charles Lindley

The Swedish Sailors and Coalers Union (Swedish: Svenska sjömans- och eldareförbundet) was a trade union in Sweden. It was the first viable maritime union in the country (following a short-lived Seamen and Coalers Trade Union founded in Göteborg in 1884). Charles Lindley was the main organizer of the union. Its Göteborg branch was founded in 1899.[1]

The union published the monthly magazine Sjöfolkets tidning.[2]

The union was dissolved in 1914 as it was bifurcated into two separate unions, the Sailors Union and the Coalers Union.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Ståhl, Margareta. Vår enighets fana: ett sekel fackliga fanor. Stockholm: LO, 1998. p. 310
  2. ^ "LIBRIS - Sjöfolkets tidning".