Ernest George Hicks[1] (13 May 1879 – 19 July 1954) was a British trades unionist and Labour Party politician.

Along with fellow bricklayers Jack Fitzgerald and F. K. Cadman, he was one of the founding members of the Socialist Party of Great Britain in June 1904.

[2] Hicks first came to prominence during the great labour unrest just before the First World War, particularly in the London building trades lockout of 1914.

He was present at the 1931 Jubilee meeting of the Labour-affiliated SDF at Bristol where he made the main speech (later published as a pamphlet Poverty from Plenty).

In a 1931 by-election, Hicks was elected Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Woolwich East, representing that constituency until 1950.