There are also five local unions in Christiania which have unemployment societies: The Goldsmiths' Union, the Model Joiners' Union, the Confectioners' Union, the Cork Cutters' Union, and the Cigarmakers' Union. These five unions have altogether 450 members. The national associations which as yet have no unemployment societies are as follows: There are also a number of other local unions which together have about 1,000 members. Prof. Dr. Oskar Jaeger sums up the social significance of the law as follows: The Norwegian law affords, therefore, in a high degree the suitable conditions for all those workmen of the country who wish to make the necessary sacrifice for unemployment insurance, and it will certainly give greater strength to the movement in favor of unemployment insurance. The law is framed with a view to encouraging self-help on the part of workmen, for not a crown is paid to them from the public funds until they have paid out from their own funds 3.25 crowns as an advance on the i crown coming from the public. And the grants which the State and commune make in this way to unemployment insurance will adjust themselves automatically, so to speak, to the need of the workmen; for in good times when unemployment and the the amount spent in aid are slight the public grants will be small, and in bad times when unemployment increases they will increase in just the same proportion as the unemployment aid procured by the workmen themselves. A further advantage is that the compulsion which obligatory insurance exercises upon the workmen and which is so distasteful is here lacking. Naturally the passage of the law does not make any one of the arrangements which might serve to combat unemployment superfluous. 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