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The Canadian Congress of Labour (CCL; ) was a trade union federation in Canada. Affiliated with the United States–based
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(CIO). It was founded in 1940 and merged with Trades and Labour Congress of Canada (TLC) to form the
Canadian Labour Congress The Canadian Labour Congress, or CLC ( or ), is a national trade union centre, the central labour body in Canada to which most Canadian trade union, labour unions are affiliated. History Formation The CLC was founded on April 23, 1956, thro ...
(CLC) in 1956.


Founding

In 1939, the
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(CIO) supporters were expelled from the TLC, due to the demands of the
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(AFL). This split had to do with the CIO unionizing industrial trades, and the AFL organizing craft trades. The expelled unions included the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, now called the United Steelworkers (USW); United Auto Workers of America, now
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; and the
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(UMWA). They negotiated with the All-Canadian Congress of Labour and founded the Canadian Congress of Labour in 1940 to rival the TLC. At its founding, it had 100,000 members, and grew to 250,000 by 1943. The Congress' founding executive included Aaron Mosher ( Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Employees), Silby Barrett, Sol Spivak, and Charles Millard (Steelworkers). They were all members of the
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(CCF) political party. They were united in the belief that labour should be involved in politics. In 1981 a
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, depicting Mosher flanked by two railway workers, was issued to commemorate the centenary of Mosher's birth.https://postagestampguide.com/stamps/16178/aaron-r-mosher-1981-canada-postage-stamp Aaron R. Mosher 1981


Leadership


Presidents

:1940: Aaron Mosher


Secretary-Treasurers

:1941:
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:1951: Donald MacDonald


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