a long clause concerning the mutual right of association and the workers’ right to call for investigation in the case of dismissals that could be interpreted as attacks on this right. No other point in the Swedish sphere of collective agreements was to be so controversial as section 23, later known as “section 32”.387 In the very same year, 1906, parliament accepted a bill on voluntary mediation in industrial disputes, which meant a breakthrough for state intervention in the matters of the big organisations on the labour market.388 Still the political and legal state of things was very unclear and opinions clashed as to how the collective agreements and the weapon of the strike should be adapted to the Swedish legal system. In the fall of 1906 the Conservative government appointed Gustav Olin (1872-1955) and Assar Åkerman (1860- 1936) to investigate matters regarding a revision of the Swedish labour law legislation. Olin, who at that time was a reporting clerk, would later on (1911-1935) become a judge on the Svea court of appeal and entrusted with a great number of investigations concerning legislation.389Åkerman, among other things,was an associate judge of appeal and a district court judge. Moreover he was politically active, during the period 1909-1914 as a “radical independent” in the second chamber of the parliament, from1919 as a Social Democrat in the first chamber and in the early 1920s he was twice minister of justice in the Social Democratic government. We will meet Åkerman several times in the parliamentary labour law debates in 1910-1911 as well as on the eve of the legislation in 1928 about regulating collective agreements and establishing a labour court. In October 1907Olin and Åkerman presented a“Memorandum concerning legislation of contracts of service”, which caused a p a r t i v, c h a p t e r 8 188 387 In Sweden known as “§ 32”. Schmidt, F 1950, p. 23; Schiller 1967, p. 39. 388 Prop. 1906:84. SFS 1906:113, Lag om medling i arbetstvister. 389 In 1947 Gustav Olin and his wife Carin Olin (1878-1963, b. Göransson) instituted The Olin Foundation for Legal History (Institutet för rättshistorisk forskning). See Petrén, S, Gustav och Carin Olin in Memorian, 2nd, Lund 1997.
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