Clarry Ählström in 1917 Stockholm, Sweden.

Clarry Ählström was a swedish working class women taken to trial accused of having  “sedition towards hunger rebellions” during an event when a food store was plundered in a desperate attempt to get food in stockholm. the shop keeper had, to add insult to injury, actually lied about there being no potatoes in the stores stock, and that he therefore could not sell them the long queue of working class stockholmers who had stood there for hours, trying to get their hands on anything to eat.

during the 1917 starvation was a major problem among the poor of Sweden.  several hunger riots (swedish: hungerskraveller) happened this year. the entire sitoutation was not improved by their also being an actual food shortage in the country of sweden during this time. some of the shops keepers  abused this situation of food shortage, to raise the prizes of all food to such a amount that the average person could not afford it.

the behaviour of the shop keepers during this epoch of swedish history, was heavily recented among the working class. this is also why a major reason why they would do such things as storm the stores for food. because expraince told them that many times, they did have food in their stores, but which the shop keepers were hiding away to sell to the swedish  upper class.

Picture of the people of stockholm 1917 queuing for hours in the hope of getting to buy any food at all

organized working class movement women posing for a picture 1917

women in the working class movement who are have been choosen as political ambassadors in the question of starvation and food shortage among the poor of stockholm. from what i can pick up from the text visible, they appear to be on their way to speak about this issue with stockholms politicans and the swedish parliament.

they are posing for a picture in the then, during 1917, democratic socialist newspaper Politiken.

originial qoute in swedish:

“En av dem var Clarry Ählström som liksom många andra vägrade att tro på att handlaren inte hade någon potatis. Hon anklagades för delaktighet i upploppet och för att ha ”uppträdt som anstiftare” genom att upprepade gånger säga ”här finns potatis och vi gå icke härifrån”.”

Source

1 maj 1917. Arbetarrörelsens arkiv och bibliotek [english: the working class movements archive and library]. it is an archive which as its roots in the working class union movements in sweden http://www.arbark.se/sv/2017/06/maj-1917/