Swedish Sailors' and Coalers' Union | |
Location Country: | Sweden |
Native Name: | Svenska sjömans- och eldareförbundet |
Native Name Lang: | sv |
Founded: | 1899 |
Dissolved: | 1914 |
Merged Label: | Split into |
Merged: | Swedish Seamen's Union, Coalers' Union. |
Key People: | Charles Lindley |
The Swedish Sailors and Coalers Union (sv|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]