A cry from two poles (1920-1929)

Sweden.

Map of the Scandinavian Peninsula.

Northern Scandinavia.

Herd of reindeer.

Luossa.

General view.

Kiruna.

Mountains.

In the foreground - a train.

Mines.

Blasting workers.

Explosion at the quarry.

Excavator.

Loading ore onto a platform.

Train with ore.

Northern landscape.

Panorama of forests in Northern Sweden.

Loggers at work.

A cart loaded with timber.

A river.

Frozen logs in it.

The metallurgical plant in Sandvika.

General view.

In the workshops of the plant.

Steel is coming.

Wheat field.

Road.

Houses.

Herd of cows.

Panorama of fields with houses.

Torpus Castle.

General view.

Ertofta Castle.

Trollenes Castle

Sweden.

A bourgeois in a restaurant.

He reads in a newspaper about the successes of the economy of the North of Sweden.

Workers in a wretched dormitory.

General view of the dormitory - a gloomy barrack.

A peasant at work.

Workers at the office.

In the office.

Signing a contract.

Lumberjacks at work.

Logging.

Workers in the barracks.

Scharnus Castle.

Lumberjacks at work.

Enormous pine trees are falling.

Data on the pitiful earnings of lumberjacks - 5 crowns 50 ore per day.

Workers processing felled trees.

Lumberjacks.

A man crushed by a fallen tree.

He is pulled out from under the tree.

Removing logs on a horse.

Sending off the finished woodpile.

Clearing the road of snow.

An old worker at breakfast.

Removing timber

Sweden.

Winter landscape.

Log hauling.

Preparing them for rafting.

Data on the working day of rafters - 14 hours a day.

Horses are brought to the stable.

Workers go to their barracks.

Workers in the barracks.

Coffee is the only stimulant, but there is little of it.

A worker grinds and brews coffee.

A bourgeois in a restaurant at lunch.

He reads a newspaper.

A worker drinks coffee.

Another smokes.

Sugar.

An emerging hand takes a lump of sugar from a worker.

Text in a newspaper about the need for further intensification of labor.

Text in a newspaper about the "development" of the natural resources of the North.

A worker prepares pancake dough.

A symbolic hand takes a lump of margarine from him.

A meager lunch of workers.

A bourgeois in a restaurant

Sweden.

Horses are led into the stable.

They are given oats.

Horses in front of the office.

The hand of a bourgeois writes out a check.

A worker lies down to sleep on a bunk.

A bourgeois lies down in his soft bed.

A woman drags a sleigh.

She chops wood in the yard.

A forest landscape.

Men returning from work.

Logs in a pond.

Lowering logs through a specially constructed gate.

Logs in a stream.

Raftsmen.

A bourgeois wakes up from sleep.

Rafters' lunch.

Rafters at work.

Lowering timber through a special ditch into a pond.

Rafters lie down to rest.

Sweden.

Raftsmen at work.

Raftsmen in a boat.

Raftsmen clear rubble, pushing logs further downstream.

A sick worker in bed.

Timber floating down the river.

A turbulent stream.

A waterfall.

A huge accumulation of logs.

A timber processing plant.

General view.

A workshop of the plant.

Processing and cutting logs.

Loading timber onto ships.

A ship loaded with timber.

A caption about the struggle of the Social Democrats for the rights of workers - lumberjacks and rafters.

Animated footage: an official at a table takes money out of a chest.

Everything goes to the bourgeoisie and officials.

The worker gets nothing.

A Swedish landscape.

A herd of cows.

A woman washes clothes.

A man with his family and son.

A rural landscape.

A caption about the only party that fights for the rights of the little man is the Social Democratic Party