claimed that the authors recommended protection of socialist propaganda advocating violence, though their task had been quite the opposite. Nor did the government appreciate the recommendations, but instead appointed in October 1907 a special committee which was given the task to further analyse legal matters concerning labour contracts.392 However, it was too late to turn back the clock. From our comfortable legal historical perspective, we have reason to conclude that the Olin-Åkerman memorandum of 1907 marked a turning point in Swedish legislative history. Its chief ideas were to become guidelines for the subsequent making of Swedish labour law. Even the non-published texts of the committee that was appointed in 1907 reflect a breakthrough for essential parts from the “new” legislative platform, which now was supported by employers as well as their nationwide organisation, SAF. This legislative programme meant a regulation of the big organisations’ position as well as a responsibility founded on the collective agreements and the establishment of a labour court for solving disputes about collective agreements.The committee elaborated different proposals in June 1908, and January and June 1909, which were to reappear in the bills of 1910 and 1911: an act on individual contracts of work, an act on collective agreements and an act on establishing a labour court. In addition the committee proposed an act concerning masters and servants which was aimed at replacing the Statute of 1833.393 The proposals of the committee appeared in many aspects to be a combination of the Statute on Hired Servants of 1833 and the rules of SAF’s charter from1905, which had been confirmed by the “December compromise” of 1906. Among other things, the committee aimed to regulate the workers’ duty of obedience p a r t i v, c h a p t e r 8 190 392 Westerståhl 1945, pp. 300-301 and Göranssson 1988, p. 224; Petrén, S 1997, pp. 7-19; Schiller 1967, pp. 54-55. 393 1907 års arbetsaftalskommitté (The labour law committe of 1907);YK nr 77, The National Archives, Stockholm.
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