Jacob Vidnes

Jacob Laurentius Vidnes (5 November 1875 – 4 October 1940) was a Norwegian trade unionist, newspaper editor, politician for the Labour Party and civil servant.

He was born in Vanylven as a son of farmer Knud Larsen Vidnes (1819–98) og Laurine Knudsdatter (1832–1910).

[1] He graduated from Volda Teachers' College in 1896, moved to Oslo as subeditor of Arbeideren in 1898 and was hired in the Labour Party main newspaper Social-Demokraten in 1899.

Vidnes stepped down from the central committee, and from the positions as chairman of Socialdemokratiske Presseforening and chief editor of Social-Demokraten.

In a piece called Arbeiderpartiet gaar helt over til bolsjevismen published in the right-wing newspaper Tidens Tegn in May 1919 he denounced the "Bolshevism" in the Labour Party.