Annual Report Labour Canada

Excerpt from Tenth Annual Report on Labour Organization in Canada: For the Calendar Year 1920 Sir, - I have the honour to submit the Tenth Annual Report on Labour Organiza tion in Canada, being for the calendar year 1920. The present volume, as in the case of the nine preceding reports on the subject, is wholly the work of Mr. Frank Plant, an official of the department of many years' standing and an experienced trades unionist. Mr. Plant's intimate knowledge of the subject, his keen and comprehensive outlook, and his earnest and painstaking work have combined to invest this annual volume with more than ordinary interest and value. Beginning in 1911 as a somewhat enlarged directory of trades unionism in Canada, the report has expanded year by year until, while continuing to function as a directory, it has in addition become a concise compendium of information as to all important aspects of trades union organization and development in the Dominion during a given calendar year. Further, the report has now for several years taken on a yet wider aspect and has included as within its scope a review of the leading incidents marking trades union organization and development in the world at large, but particularly all aspects of such matters as appear to have an international bearing and thus incidentally, if not more directly, affecting Canada. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Twenthy-Fifth Annual Report on Labour Organization in Canada: For the Calendar Year 1935 The monthly issues of the Labour Gazette contain information as to conventions of the various labour organizations as well as other union activities. In Canada, labour organization falls into two classes: (1) international organizations having membership in Canada and the United States; (2) organizations whose membership is wholly in Canada. The Canadian branches of nearly all of the first group are in affiliation with the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada (referred to in a subsequent chapter). The sec-0nd group, made up of wholly Canadian bodies, is grouped according to affiliation under: Trades and Labour Congress of Canada; all-canadian Congress of Labour; National Catholic Unions, affiliated with the Federation of Catholic Workers of Canada, etc. The principal types of labour organization are the craft unions, including workmen in a single craft or a number of closely related crafts or trad-es, such as bricklayers and stone masons, and the industrial unions, those having members in the various occupations in a particular industry, for instance, in coal mining. Several of the first mentioned class include several crafts with helpers and labourers, so that they may be considered quasi-industrial unions. There is also a type of organization which organizes workers in all industries under one general union, centrally controlled, usually with sub-divisions by industries and localities. In a later section of this chapter the development of the various types of labour organization in Canada is briefly outlined. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.