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Edward (Teddy) Dye (1879 – 25 January 1942) was a New Zealand trade unionist and miner.

He was born in Timaru, and lived in Australia as a youth. He was president for twenty years of the Ohinemuri Miners’ Union and the New Zealand Gold Mine Employees' Federation. Blacklisted after the 1912 Waihi miners' strike, he broke in a dairy farm from the bush for eight years before returning to the Waihi gold mines.[1]

He was a member of the New Zealand Legislative Council, appointed by the Labour Government, from 9 March 1936 to 25 January 1942,[2] when he died aged 63 years from miner's phthisis.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Gustafson, Barry (1980). Labour's path to political independence: The Origins and Establishment of the New Zealand Labour Party, 1900–19. Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press. ISBN 0-19-647986-X. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  2. ^ Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. p. 152. OCLC 154283103. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)