Tom Young (trade unionist)

William Thomas Young (27 April 1870 – 20 September 1953) was a New Zealand seaman and trade unionist.

Young was born in Karori, Wellington, New Zealand in 1870.

[1] He stood in the 1908 election as an independent Labour candidate in the Wellington Suburbs electorate and was defeated in the first ballot.

[2] He stood in the 1911 election for the original Labour Party in the Wellington Central electorate and was again defeated in the first ballot.

[4] Young was a Labour Party candidate in several Wellington municipal elections in 1905, 1907, 1913, 1915, 1921, 1923, 1925 and 1927.