 In addition to Jakob Friis, Trond Hegna worked as editor; from the third volume on, Dagfin Juel worked as a co-editor.The Communist Party was reluctant to the whole project, and the Norwegian Labour Party was negative as well.In April 1933, "Arbeidernes Leksikon" received a grant from the group "Mot Dag", which had formerly been affiliated with the Communist and Labour parties, but now was independent.