Edward Mørk (28 November 1888 – 1962) was a Norwegian trade unionist and politician for the Labour Party.
Biography
He was a typographer by profession, but entered politics via Norges Socialdemokratiske Ungdomsforbund in 1906. He was the national leader of the organization in 1909, 1911 and 1914.[1] He then chaired Oslo faglige samorg from 1920 to 1932, and was also a secretariat member in the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions from 1925 to 1927.[2] He was a proponent of local trade union confederations (Шаблон:Lang-no). At the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions congress in 1923 he proposed that fourteen representatives from the local confederations got a place in the supervisory council. The proposal was voted down with 102 against 101 votes.[3] From 1932 he led the Employment Office (Шаблон:Lang) in Oslo.[1]
In 1934 he was excluded from the Labour Party for failing to mortify accusations of corruption.[1] He died in 1962.[2]
