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Lie joined the Labour Party in 1911 and was named as the party's national secretary soon after receiving his law degree from the University of Oslo in 1919.

Lie was editor-in-chief for Det 20 århundre (' The 20th Century ') from 1919 to 1921.

From 1922 to 1935 he was a legal consultant for the Workers ' National Trade Union ( named Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions from 1957 ).

He chaired the Norwegian Workers ' Confederation of Sports from 1931 to 1935.