Swedish Sailors and Coalers Union
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Svenska sjömans- och eldareförbundet | |
| Split into | Swedish Seamen's Union, Coalers' Union. |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1899 |
| Dissolved | 1914 |
| 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 Gothenburg 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]
