NORWEGIAN EMPLOYERS’ ASSOCIATION The Norsk Arbeidsgiverforening (Norwegian Employers’ Association), a union of employers in Norway, was formed on November 21, 1900. Its object is to work for lasting relations between employers and employed, to avert and settle labour disputes, and to give its members guidance in respect of labour conditions and so forth. Some of the members of the central board of the Asso- ciation are elected in general meeting and others by the national federations of the special trades. As regards the adjustment of relations with the employed the Association has pursued a definite policy. It has worked for a regulation of labour conditions by tariff agreements with the labour organisations, as far as possible comprising the whole country and for each individual trade. These wages agreements have induced more order and quiet at working places than was formerly the case. This result is due to the co-operation which has necessarily had to be effected between the Association and the national labour federation. According as the relations between masters and men have become more legally consolidated, and 156