Charles Lindley

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Charles Lindley (born Carl Gustaf Lindley; 1865—1957) was a Swedish socialist and trade union activist.

For many years in his youth, Lindley was a merchant sailor working on English sea vessels, and he became very active in the United Kingdom 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.

In the year 1900, Charles Lindley married the Swedish feminist Elin Lindley, née Elin Jonsson, who was a close friend of the Bolshevik Alexandra Kollontay.

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