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International. The AIF national conference of May 1931 decided that AIF withdrew from the Red Sport International. Trygve Lie was elected AIF chairman. The communists responded by
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Thorvald Olsen. Olsen, a national wrestling champion, was a Labour Party member but seen as more sympathetic towards the Red Sport International. In the election, Olsen defeated the incumbent Jørgensen. Moreover, the communist
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in 1927. The merger conference, the unified party declared that it would continue to support AIF but that their support was condition with the 'end to
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the Labour Party-wing of AIF to tone down the propagandistic character of the event was severely disliked by the Red Sport
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