Albin Eines

Eines was born in Trondheim. He took a typographer and bookbinder education in Sweden, where he joined the socialist movement under Zeth Höglund. He moved back to Norway in 1909,[1] after the Swedish General Strike.[2] Eines was a member of Fagopposisjonen av 1911 and Norges Socialdemokratiske Ungdomsforbund,[3] and was deputy leader for some time,[1] but resigned his NSU membership in 1921 as he felt too old.[4] He was a sub-editor in Klassekampen from 1911, and later worked in Vest-Finmarkens Arbeiderblad, Folkets Dagblad and Østfold Dagblad.[1] Eines edited Folkets Dagblad (before 1921 named Nybrott) from 1919 to 1922,[5] when sub-editor Ingjald Nordstad took over.[6]

In 1920, Eines announced his scepticism towards the Twenty-one Conditions.[7] However, he changed heart and joined the Communist Party when it was split from the Labour Party in 1923.[8] Eines started working in Ny Tid, and edited that newspaper for a short while.[1] He was a delegate at the Fifth Comintern Congress in 1925.[2] In the spring of 1927, Eines took over as editor of the main newspaper of the Communist Party, Norges Kommunistblad.[9] He was absent during the summer, as he was imprisoned (five weeks of detention, without conviction) together with Henry W. Kristiansen, Just Lippe and Otto Luihn,[10] but returned to edit the newspaper in the autumn of 1927 before Christian Hilt took over later that year.[9]

Eines left the Communist Party around New Years' 1927–1928.[2] Already in 1928, he started working for the right-wing newspaper Tidens Tegn.[11] In 1940, Eines moved to the Fascist newspaper Fritt Folk. He also joined the Fascist party Nasjonal Samling (NS). He thus found a position during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, when NS and the German Nazis took over power. In March 1942, Eines was hired as sub-editor, Odd Fossum's second-in-command, on the newspaper Norsk Arbeidsliv. The newspaper belonged to the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions where the Nazis recently had usurped full power. In December 1943, he was promoted to editor-in-chief, and he remained so until July 1944.[11]

In 1947, during the legal purge in Norway after World War II, Eines was convicted of treason and sentenced to four years in prison. He died in prison that same year.[11]