out of Drammen. He succeeded Alfred B. Skar and was succeeded by Inge Scheflo. In 1944–1945, he was one of the proponents for the Common Program. The program was given the green light by Sverre Iversen, Labour Party politician and member of Kretsen, and was made by Ousland and three bourgeois politicians, first and foremost Herman Smitt Ingebretsen. It built on the so-called Blåboka, "The Blue Book", written by leading politician Haakon Lie in exile in England. After the Second World War, the Common Program was manifested in Gerhardsen's First Cabinet. He wrote the book Fellesprogrammet. Hvordan det ble til – og hvordan det blir ført ut i livet about the Common Program in 1947, and also published several books about trade unions. His main work was Fagorganisasjonen i Norge, about trade unions in Norway, first published in 1927. In 1949, it was expanded from one to four volumes and re-released. Ousland wrote three of the four volumes. He wrote a book about contemporary challenges, Fagorganisasjonens problemstilling i dag in 1946, and the union history Norsk Treindustriarbeiderforbund 50 år in 1954. References 1877 births 1967 deaths People from Mandal, Norway Norwegian temperance activists Norwegian trade unionists Norwegian newspaper editors Politicians from Oslo Labour Party (Norway) politicians Social Democratic Labour Party of Norway politicians Norwegian resistance members World War II resistance press activists