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to be lent to persons without means, for the purchase of plots
of ground (Land-purchase Fund). Lastly, there is a committee
appointed by the government to draw up suitable conditions for
the loans.
WORKING-MEN’S ASSOCIATIONS. SOCIALISM. NORMAL
WORKING DAY.
The working-men in the large towns and in some of the
factory districts in the country, have organised trades’ unions with
funds to give support to the unemployed, especially during strikes.
There have been several of these of late years, occasioned especially
by demands for higher wages, which have also to some extent
been obtained.
The social-political question has made the working-men unite
in a country union, the United Working-men’s Association («De
forenede norske arbeidersamfund»), which numbers 125 branches.
Outside this association too, there exist several scattered unions
of working-men, and in the rural districts also, the union has met
with warm adherents within the workingmen’s [[** atter mgl bindestrek]] circle.
With the uniform economic conditions, the not greatly
developed factory activity, the rising wages, and the great political
equality, the social democratic ideas have not found a wide field
for their dissemination. The Norwegian Labour-Party (< Det norske
arbeiderparti») is social-democratic. It was founded in 1887, and
possesses 80 associations, among them being 36 trades’ unions in
Kristiania, and a total of 11,500 members. The social-democratic
party has no representative in the national assembly, while in some
towns it has one or more members in the municipal Council.
The Norwegian Labour Congress of 1885 advocated the
introduction of a normal working-day (10 hours). There are still,
however, no measures passed in that direction. In the government
works, and in most of the municipal occupations, there is a
working-day of 10 hours and under.
THE WOMAN’S QUESTION MOVEMENT.
It is some time since woman was placed on an equality with
man as regards coming of age (at the age of 21), equal inheritance
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