| Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
| Teddy Dye | |
| Office2: | Member of the New Zealand Legislative Council |
| Term Start2: | 9 March 1936 |
| Term End2: | 25 January 1942 |
| Office3: | Member of the Waihi Borough Council |
| Term Start3: | 29 July 1937 |
| Term End3: | 17 May 1941 |
| Birth Name: | Edward Dye |
| Birth Date: | 7 August 1879 |
| Birth Place: | Timaru, New Zealand |
| Death Place: | Auckland, New Zealand |
| Party: | Labour |
Edward Dye (7 August 1879 – 25 January 1942) was a New Zealand trade unionist and miner.
Dye was born in Timaru, and lived in Australia as a youth.[1] [2] He was president for twenty years of the Ohinemuri Miners' Union and the New Zealand Gold Mine Employees' Federation. Blacklisted after the 1912 Waihi miners' strike, he broke in a dairy farm from the bush for eight years before returning to the Waihi gold mines.[3]
On 29 July 1937, Dye was elected a member of the Waihi Borough Council.[4] He was re-elected for a further three years at the local elections the following year, but stood down at the 1941 local elections.[2] Dye was a member of the New Zealand Legislative Council, appointed by the Labour Government, from 9 March 1936 to 25 January 1942,[5] when he died from miner's phthisis.
. Barry Gustafson . Labour's path to political independence: The Origins and Establishment of the New Zealand Labour Party, 1900–19 . Auckland, New Zealand . . 1980 . 0-19-647986-X.