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activists activity American labour autoworkers battles began bosses British Columbia bureaucratic Canada Canadian Labour Congress Canadian labour movement Canadian unionists Canadian unions Canadian workers capital capitalist cent central centres challenge collective agreements collective bargaining Communist communities corporate craft unionists craft unions craftsmen decade demands democracy developed dustrial early economic election employers employment especially factories federal and provincial ganizations groups immigrants independent industrial unionism international unions Knights Knights of Labor labour leaders labour legislation labour market leadership Liberal major membership ment militancy miners mining Montreal nationalist negotiations Nova Scotia numbers Ontario organizational organized workers Ottawa picket lines political postwar production programs provincial governments public-sector Quebec radical rank-and-file resistance sector skilled social democrats socialist society solidarity steelworkers strike strikebreakers structures struggle tion Toronto towns Trades and Labor union leaders United Vancouver wage-earners wages women workforce working-class workplace World World War II