The employer’s right to engage and dismiss workers was based on the nature of the labour contract and the right to direct and distribute work was necessary for the successful running of a business.590 One month later on January 1, 1929, the labour court started its activities.The Swedish trade unions had thus been integrated into the legal system.The three impartial members of the labour court were to hold the balance in making decisions.Two of these were jurists and one was a civil servant.The court’s first labour market representatives were Hjalmar von Sydow and Ivar O. Larsson for SAF , and Albert Forslund and C. J. Söder for LO.The impartial members were Frans August Lind, city court judge from Stockhom, Nils Bergsten, head of department at the National Board of Health andWelfare, and assuming the important position as the court’s first chairman was Arthur Lindhagen, one of the men behind the 1927 investigation. Prior to the 1928Act on Collective Agreements, there were no sanctions if one of the parties violated a collective agreement. The new legislation meant that the state used its monopoly on force to make the parties maintain collective agreements. The act allowed industrial actions on the labour market (strikes and lockouts) concerning matters that were not regulated by a collective agreement (Sw. intressetvist). However, the legislation prohibited industrial actions if the dispute concerned the application or interpretation of what was regulated by the collective agreement then in force.The organisations as well as their individual members were bound by the collective agreement. Disputes about the legal interpretation of collective agreements were instead to be solved by the labour court.The legal sanction for violations of this prohibition against strikes was damages or dismissal.591 What consequences the legislation of 1928 would have p a r t i v, c h a p t e r 9 288 590 Arbetsfredskonferensen i Stockholm den 30 november och 1 december 1928. Stockholm1929. Schiller 1974, pp. 330-331. 591 Göransson 1988, pp. 420-424.
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