Walter Johan Borg, born 21 June 1870 in Jakobstad, Finland; died 6 June 1918 in Petrograd, was a Swedish-speaking Finn, a merchant, idealist and socialist. Biography The same year Walter Borg was born his father (according to the parish book) escaped to America. At that time this was not uncommon among young men who received call-up orders to the Russian army. In 1881 Walter moved with his mother from Jakobstad to her hometown Vaasa. In 1890, he received a final grade of Raahe Burgher and Trade School, a four-year mercantile institution with a good reputation. In 1894 Borg moved from Vaasa to Hanko, where he was employed as a clerk. There he married Ida Ojala on March 20, 1894. The couple had six sons and two daughters. In 1896 he moved his family to Vaasa. From Vaasa the family moved in 1900 to Tampere and from there to Turku. In Turku, he was employed by the Bore Company as head of its harbor offices. After a few years he resigned and founded in 1898 his own agency in the food industry. It is not known when Borgs political engagement began, but it was as an activist, he first made his name. Through his employment at the Bore Company he could help many Russian revolutionaries who fled via Finland from Russia, among them Lenin. The Swedish Workers' Association of Turku was founded in 1903 and Borg became a member of it. However, he never became a prominent figure in the association and let alone any political protagonist. Because of a progressive lung disease his involvement was restricted. The newspaper Arbetet (The Work), which was founded in 1909, committed Borg strongly. He became the newspaper's driving force and soon he managed the entire magazine. He never undertook the post of responsibility and it was respected, probably for his bad health's sake and for the sake of his own company. His brother in law Janne Ojala who undertook this post did not even serve a year before he was charged with lese-majesty and was serving a six-month prison sentence, the same thing happened to the successor Ivar Hörhammer. The editing of the magazine fell to Borgs lot while he also was its most hard-working writer. So he continued to edit the magazine for years and years until he could no longer, and he continued to write even longer. The image of Walter Borg