Charles Lindley born Carl Gustaf Lindley, was a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 socialist

Socialism

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 and trade union

Trade union

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 activist.

For many years in his youth, Lindley was a merchant sailor

Able Seaman (occupation)

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 working on English

England

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 sea vessels, and he became very active in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 workers' movement. It was from his British comrades that Carl got his English-sounding nickname Charles, which he kept upon his return to Sweden.

Charles Lindley was the founder of the Swedish Transport Worker's Union in 1897 and co-founder of the International Transport Workers' Federation

International Transport Workers' Federation

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In the year 1900, Charles Lindley married the Swedish feminist

Feminism

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 Elin Lindley, née Elin Jonsson, who was a close friend of the Bolshevik

Bolshevik

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 Alexandra Kollontay.

Today, there is a small statue of Charles Lindley in Göteborg.