By Henry Bengston
Formerly to be had in basic terms in an out-of-print Swedish version released in 1955, Henry Bengston's firsthand account bargains with what historian Dag Blanck calls the "other Swedish America." Swedish immigrants quite often have been conservative, yet Bengston and others—most significantly Joe Hill—joined the working-class hard work flow at the left, basically as Debsian socialists, even though their ranks integrated different socialists, communists, and anarchists. serious about the novel hard work move on many fronts, Bengston used to be the editor of Svenska Socialisten from 1912 until eventually he dropped out of the Scandinavian Socialist Federation in 1920. Even after 1920, although, his sympathies remained with the circulate he had as soon as strongly espoused.
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Interrupted only by a short lunch break, when each of us got together with his closest neighbor to cook tea in an empty tomato can and enjoy his lunch. Now a lumberjack is known for his hearty appetite, and he could look forward to a long, hungry day if, as it sometimes happened, a squirrel discovered his lunch pail and devoured its contents. Evenings in our forest camp were never boring. Most of the lumberjacks played cards; others told stories or played the accordion and sang popular songs.
His wife let me know in no uncertain terms that the sooner I claimed that heathen piece of paper the better. While I disliked the fact that my distingutished and beloved teacher had reason to feel disappointed by my choice of political ideals, I did not feel that this obligated me to yield to his will. My parents also took an interest in my ideological development but without trying in any way to dislodge me from my chosen path. They themselves never went any farther left in their political thinking than Mauritz Hellberg, the editor of Karlstads-tidningen, and when the head of the Liberal coalition party, Karl Staaff, was called upon to form a new cabinet, they saw the dawning of a Page 14 new era for old Mother Sweden.
Unemployment grew to serious proportions, and the twin cities of Port Arthur and Fort William were no exception. Crises of this nature were nothing new to America, as they recurred almost regularly nearly every fifteen years, but this apparent fact did not diminish their devastating impact. Despite my limited experience, I tried my hand at analyzing the economic problems for myself. It seemed to me that the more diversified employment opportunities of a large city environment ought to offer a person greater economic security than would be the case in smaller communities.