James Morrow (trade unionist)

James Morrow (July 1904 – 1986) was an Irish trade unionist and politician.

He became active in the Northern Ireland Labour Party and served as its chairman in 1949/50.

He worked as an organiser for the Amalgamated Engineering Union,[1] and in 1970 he served as President of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions.

[2] Morrow contested Belfast South in the 1945 UK general election, taking 17.5% of the vote,[3] then in Belfast North, at the 1951 general election, where he took 39.3%.

[4] He came closest to election in Belfast Duncairn at the 1945 Northern Ireland general election, taking 45.5% of the vote, but his share dropped to 16.9% in 1949, and recovered only slightly at a by-election held later in the year.