James Baird (1871–1948) was a trade unionist and politician in Northern Ireland, born at Kilclay, near Augher, County Tyrone.
A Presbyterian and Rechabite, and an opponent of the partition of Ireland, Baird joined the Independent Labour Party.
[1] Baird was expelled from the Harland and Wolff shipyard where he worked on account of his politics, alongside labour activists Sam Kyle, John Hanna and Charles McKay, and a substantial number of Roman Catholics.
[1] After working for the National Sailors' and Firemen's Union, Baird joined the ITGWU as an organizer, was active in the Waterford farm strike of 1923, and polled well as Labour candidate for Waterford in the general election of August 1923.
Emmet O'Connor, Rotten Prod: The Unlikely Career of Dongaree Baird (UCD, 2022)