Jens Jensen was a Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 trade union

Trade union

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ist and Social Democratic

Social Democrats (Denmark)

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 politician. Jensen was a painter by profession. In 1879 he moved to Copenhagen

Copenhagen

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. In 1883 was became the president of the Painters' Trade Union, and in 1898 he was one of the main founders of the United Trade Unions

Danish Confederation of Trade Unions

LO, The Danish Confederation of Trade Unions was founded in 1898 and is an umbrella organisation for 18 Danish trade unions....

. Jensen was elected president of the union federation. During his tenure Jensen took the initiative to the first international trade union coordination, the International Secretariat of National Trade Union Centres

International Secretariat of National Trade Union Centres

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Between 1895 and 1903 he was a Member of Folketinget. He later became the first Social Democratic mayor of Copenhagen.