Document Record

Title

Canadian Labour Congress : Union Label Trades Department files
Congrès du travail du Canada : dossiers du Service de l'étiquette syndicale

Identifier

MIKAN: 183321
Reels/Bobines: H-231 to H-234, H-236 to H-237, H-239 to H-240, H-424 to H-425, H-518, H-526, H-531, H-906 to H-907, H-909 to H-910
Archival Reference/Référence Archivistique: MG 28 I 103
oocihm.lac_mikan_183321
lac_mikan_183321

Subject

Papers
Labour
Working class
Correspondence
Corporate history
Papiers
Travail
Classe ouvrière
Correspondance
Histoire de l'entreprise

Document source

Library and Archives Canada/Bibliothèque et Archives Canada

Notes

1952-1974
Copyright Not Evaluated/Droit d'auteur non évalué
https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

Language

English

Description

The Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), Canada's largest and most influential labour federation, was formed in 1956 by the merger of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada (TLC) and the Canadian Congress of Labour (CCL). As of 2013, it represented the interests of over 3 million affiliated workers. The CLC is the umbrella organization for dozens of affiliated Canadian and international unions, as well as provincial federations of labour and regional labour councils.
This collection consists of files relating to the Union Label Trades Department. The Department was established at the CLC's founding in 1956. It was responsible for promoting, through the use of the union label, the demand for goods and services produced by union members. The Department also organized the Union Industries Show - a series of trade fairs where union-made products and services would be displayed. The collection contains correspondence, reports, minutes, convention records, contracts, promotional material, lists of exhibitors at shows, financial records, and other documents.
Le Congrès du travail du Canada (CTC), la plus grande et la plus influente des centrales syndicales du Canada, fut fondé en 1956 par la fusion du Congrès des métiers et du travail du Canada (CMTC) et du Congrès canadien du travail (CCT). En 2013, il représentait les intérêts de plus de 3 millions de travailleurs affiliés. Le CTC chapeaute des douzaines de syndicats nationaux et internationaux, ainsi que des fédérations provinciales de travailleurs et des conseils régionaux de travailleurs.
Cette collection est constituée des dossiers relatifs au Service de l'étiquette syndicale. Ce Service fut créé en 1956 lors de la fondation du CTC. Il était responsable, avec l'étiquette syndicale, de la promotion de la demande des biens et services produits par les membres syndiqués. Le Service était aussi à l'origine du Salon syndical-industriel - une série de foires commerciales où des services et des produits de fabrication syndicale étaient exposés. La collection contient de la correspondance, des rapports, des procès-verbaux, des documents liés aux congrès, des contrats, du matériel publicitaire, des listes d'exposants aux salons, des états financiers et plus encore.
Finding Aid MSS492 is a list of textual records in the fonds. Part 1 is file list of containers 1 to 535. Part 2 is a file list of microfilm reels numbered from H-17 to H-923. Part 3 consists of printed reports from a database listing of files in containers 536 to 689, related microfilm copies, and microfilm reels M-9601 to M-9608; the database itself is temporarily available only in the Economic and Governance Archives Section, Canadian Archives Branch. Note that folders in containers 581 to 689 are only identified by the container and folder numbers; while a file list is included in each of these containers, researchers should nevertheless make note of the appropriate container and folder numbers while consulting Part 3 of the finding aid. MSS0492 http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001618.pdf http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001619.pdf http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002232.pdf
From record: Series consists of files documenting correspondence and per capita tax payments from unions and municipal labour councils affiliated to the Union Label Trades Department, the department's executive meetings and conventions, requests for and distribution of union label materials, registration of union labels, the CLC's Union-Industries Show, and other aspects of the CLC's efforts to promote union label trades and services. Some files document the department prior to the 1956 merger, when it was part of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada. The files contain correspondence, reports, minutes, convention records, contracts, promotional material, lists of exhibitors at shows, financial records, and other documents.

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