James Castle Turner (November 4, 1916 – April 13, 1996) was an American labor union leader.
Born in Beaumont, Texas, Turner moved to Washington, D.C., where he joined the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) in 1934.
Later in the decade, he studied economics at the Catholic University of America, where he was also a boxing champion.
[1] During the 1960s, he served on the Democratic National Committee, and in 1967, he was appointed to the first Council of the District of Columbia.
However, he was critical of Carter's anti-inflation program, which he argued would not succeed and unfairly penalized workers.