John Baker

John Baker (8 April 1867 – 3 May 1939) was a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician.

Born in Stockton-on-Tees, Yorkshire, he was the son of a bricklayer, also named John Baker. He held various jobs in iron foundries, steelworks, brickyards and engineering works prior to becoming a locomotive driver. In 1898 he became national organiser of the National Amalgamated Society of Enginemen, Cranemen, Boilermen, Firemen and Electrical Workers, later rising to be general secretary in 1907. and also failed to be elected at Wolverhampton Bilston in 1922 and 1923. He was finally elected as Bilston's member of parliament at his third attempt in the 1924 general election. By this time he was an assistant secretary at the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation. He held the seat at the 1929 election, but was unseated in 1931 following a split in the Labour Party and the formation of a National Government.

Baker was a writer on industrial economics and sat on Arthur Balfour's Committee on Industry and Trade.

By the time of his death, aged 72, in the North Middlesex Hospital he was living in East Finchley.