Torsdagen den 15 maj 1947
Sidan 6
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SVENSK SEGER i SIMNING I NEW YORK
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। Under första kvartalet 1947 flög det skandinaviska flygbolagets maskiner en sträcka mot-så svarande 18 varv runt jorden.
hjärtligt hyllad som simmaren 1,792 passagerare transporte-Per-Olof Olsson, som vann 501 rades över Atlanten. Resenä-
och 100 yards vid New Yorks ■ rerna för i regel mera bagage A. C.:s tävlingar i fredags och ! från Amerika (34.3 kg. i gelördags, säger Gerhard T.; nomsnitt) än från Europa (22.9 Rooth i sin artikel om den-kg.).
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ren Alan Ford och Europamäs- Bostadssanering i städerna för
tåren, fransmannen Jany.
800 miljoner kronor.
------------ Drygt 200,000 lägenheter,
Femhundra italienska arbetare d. v. s. 15 procent av bostadsbe-
Lund University Glee Club to United States.
The Lund University Glee Club arrives in New York May 19 on the S/S “Drottningholm” of the Swedish American Line for a tour of the United States. It will be the finst visit of a Swedish singing society since oefore the war. The Glee Club consist of 40 singers under the direction of Josef Hedar, choir conductor of the Cathedral of Lund. A visit is arranged to the New Sweden Tercentenary monument in Wilmington, Del., which marks the spot where the first Swedish settlers land-ed in 1638.
This is the choir’s second visit to the United States; the first tour took place in 1904. The Glee Club was organized in 1831. The majority of the sing-ers are students at Lund University, which was founded in 1668.
(1776-1839), father of the system of Swedish gymastics, will oe held -between July 27 and August 13 and will be combined with a World Congress for Physical Culture and a Gymnast Camp at Malma Field, 60 miles south of- Stockholm. Dourses and ieetures will also oe arranged. As in 1939, when the First Lingiad took place, the main events will be staged at the Stockholm Olympic Stadium. At that time, more than 7,300 gymnasts from 37 coun-tries participated.
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Enligt ett avtal mellan Sverige och Italien kommer 500 italienska fackarbetare att sändas till Sverige. Italienarna får samma lön som svenska arbetare, och arbetsförhållandena blir desamma. De får sända pengar till sina familjer i Italien. Arbetarna beräknas avresa från Italien inom en månad. I Sverige råder det på flera
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ståndet i landets tätorter, skall 'enligt ett av bostadssociala utredningen avgivet betänkande saneras bort. Kostnaden beräknas gå -till 800 miljoner kronor i icke räntabla tomtvärden.
Utredningen framhåller att omkring 30,000 bebodda lägen-! heter har dömts ut eller kommer att dömas ut av hälso-vårdsnämderna. Därtill kommer att inom stora stadsområ-den miljöförhållandena är sådana att en sanering och rekonstruktion efter ny stadsplan framstår som nödvändig.
Swedish Labcr Federation 1,150,000 Members.
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The Swedish Federation of Labor had 1,147,015 members on January 1, 1947, as compar-ed with 1,106,917 a year ago. The number of trade unions in-creased with 165 to 8,787 div-ided into 45 national organiza-
tions. Women ■ members number 195,319.
Unemployment within unions affiliated with the
now
the Fed-
Stockholm den 5 maj. —
Scandinavian Airlines System har avtalat med United Airlines att sända flyggods från Sverige till ett 70-tal amerikanska städer. Detta är det första avtalet i sitt slag mellan ett europeiskt företag och ett amerikanskt bolag, och det möjliggör att paket från Sverige når Chicago på 31 timmar,
Ingrid Bergman
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sin Litteris et Artibus, som för någon tid sedan tilldelades henne av konung Gustaf. Medalj och diplom överlämnades till henn-e i New York av minister Herman Eriksson. Litteris et Artibus är en belöningsmedalj för litterära och konstnärliga förtjänster och instiftades av Karl XV som kronprins.
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eration continued to decrease in 1946, when it amounted to 3.3 per cent of the total mem-bership. This is regarded as low as unemployment figures praetieally can decline. In 1945 the corresponding percentage was 4.5 and in 1939 it whs 9.
The study circle activity of the- Federation grew i seope during the year. There are now 3,576 circles wlhere all kinds of subjeets are taught to more than 70,000 student wbrkers. The Federation also intends to establish a special Women’s Council to be of aid and information to women workers on all questions and problems that concern them especially.
NEWS IN BRIEF:
University students
from many parts of the w<orld, numbering about 100, will take part in a study trip through Scandinavia in July. A side excursion to Finland will also be provided.
Sixty British
and Scottish gymnasts, most-ly women, have been invited for a two-week study visit to Sweden by 'the Swedish Gymnastic Central Institute. In addition to ieetures and demonstration, the group will visit the Bosön Athletic Institute and the Lillsved Gymnastic College, both near Stockholm.
Count Folke Bernadotte
was re-eleoted president of the Swedish American Sooiety in Stockholm at iits recen/t meeting. Prof. Bertil Ohlin, noted economist who last month lectured at Columbia Universi-ty, was made vice-preisidfent.
To prevent
the spreadinig of small pox, 10,000 fishermen and their families on Sweden’s West Coast will be vaccinated. A few cases of small pox have been discovered in Grimsby, in England, and -since many of these fishermen land their catches there, the vaccination, which is voluntary and cosit free, has been urged by -the Swedish Medical Board as a preventive measu-re.
Sweden’s Population Increased in 1946 with 90,000 to 6,763,756.
On January 1 this year Swe-don’s population was 6,763,756. Tbus means an inerease of 90,-007 as comipared with a year ago. The nativity surplus was 61,378. Immigration showed a surplus over emigration of 26,-066, or almost twice as large a figure as in 1945.
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Scandinavian Scientists to Spend Winter in Antarctica.
A Norwegian-Swedish-Brit-ish expedition to Antarctica is being planned for the autumn and winter of 1948. From all three countries have come the suggestion that it be led by the Norwegian Polar flyer and sci-entist and former head of the Norwegian Air Corps, General Hjalmar Riiser-Lansen. Since he is connected with the Scandinavian Airlines System in Stockholm in the capacity of adviser, dt m(ay be impossible for him to aecept. For the time being, however, he has agreed to take charge of all the tec-nical preparatiöns.
It is planned to pick out four scientists from each country — geographers, biologists, mete-orologists, and glaciologists. These will form a landing group which will spend the winter in Antarctica.
B-ecause of Norway’s great interests in tht South Polar region, it is expeeted that she will carry the major part of the expenses. A 5,000-ton former German troop-ship, now belonging to the Norwgian Na-vy and named the “Svalbard”, jwill carry the expedition to Crown Princess Astrid Land, which will be the scientists’ main working sphere.
Greta Skog, Swedish
mezzo-soprano, on March 14, made her New York debut in Times Hall willth la program of Itahan, German, Norwegian, and Swedish songs. The New York Herald Tribunie wrote of her that shie sang “with intel-ligence, maturtty and taste.
In Sweden,
a fully qualified commercial aviation pilot costs 400,000 kronor, $111,500, in training.
Over 40,000 units
of anrtå-influeinza vaccine were flown from United States to Sweden during the recent epi-d.mic that hit many parts of the country.
Stockholm has 362
millionairs (in kronor), of whom an even hundred have a fortun-e of two millionis or more.
Former Vice-President
Henry A. Wallace planis to visit Stockholm April 17th, ac-coirding to Morgon-Tidningen-.
SOCIAL REFORM . . .
Continued hom page 1 made imiproved -pensions a matter for a voite of confidence •— and was defeated.
World Gymnastic Festival Stockholm 1949.
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Offical invi-tation to the Sec-ond Lingiad, the world gym-nastic festival in Stockholm in 1949, has been sent out in six different languages to 60 nations.
This meeting, which honors the memory of Per Henrik Ling
Hardly had this law come into force when a new bill was introduced and passed, to take effeet from July 1, 1946. In addition to young persons under 18, workers who are now en-titled to three weeks vacation with pay are: workers under' ground, miners in the far north, those working at least 4 hours between 10 at night and 6 in the morning, and those working at least four hours of the day in darkrooms. Workers ex-pesed to X-rays and radium in any way get sex weeks. Young pecple may divide their vaca-cion into two parts — the idea being that a third of vacation period may be taken in winter, whe there is opportunity for Bkiing.
Free Rail Travel for Vaca-tioning Mothers and Children.
Children of families with in-comes up to *2,500 kronor and taxable property not exceeding **20,000 kronor are entitled to free rail travel up to 600 kilo-metres (375 miles), or in the sparsely populäted noithern provinces up to twice that distance. Hitherto such journeys
and the abandonment of food-stuff -rebates for lower income groops, it appeared that for the next three years the budget would pe-rmit, besides the reforms recounted above, only a general system of small premi-um paymenfs to families with children (proposed 'is 260 kronor per child). Not until 1950 — 1951 are any considerable surpluses -expeeted. Hence the proposal to wait until that date before introducing obligatory sickness Insurance and free hospital treatment.
It should be mentioned also that wartime restrictions on t>uilding, and present • con-sltruiction difficulties, plus the shortage of labor, are added ob-stacles to putting through the plan for extended medical services at the present time.
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have been free only to estab-lished children’s vacation col-onies. The age limit remains 14 years.
Mdthers in this income class who have at least two children under 14, may now travel free for any distance. The faet that they only have to be away from home about 10 days, however, as opposed to four weeks for ; the children, and the faet that
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Three Weeks Vacation with Pay for Young Workers and Miners.
The patience of Swedish so- mlost of them will hardly be cial reformers, and the general able to be away much longer willingnesis to let matters fol-; anyway, will obviously mini-low an orderly, democratic mize -any misu-se of the privil-course — waitmg until a gen-Jege. As the number of vacation
erous margin of agreem-ent has
been obtained, not only among government supporters but also in the opposition — may like-wise be seen in the development of the laws affeeting paid va-cations.
Up to 1936 even the most powerful labor unions had only managed to get from 4 to 6 days vacation with pay ineluded in collective agreements. Gustav Möller, who was already then Minister of Social Affairs, slet up a committee that year however to make proposals for statutory paid vacations. Con-sequently a law was passed in
homJes provided by such agen-cies as municipal bodies and large companiies is growing rapidly, on the other hand, va-caJtions are increasingly becom-ing an aetual possibility for all molthers.
Budget Limitations Delay Further Reforms.
As already mentioned how-1 ever, it was when the question ' of financing the various reforms on the prgram came to be examined that the difficult-ies became evident. This the
more so as it was clearly de-sirable not only to abolish the
1938 enforcing a two weeks va- sales a^ exSs prS taxes cation for most employees. This generally. Even with a reduS was only regarded as a mini- tion of military ex^SX
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