Confederation of Catholic workers of Canada.

This study on the Confederation of Catholic Workers of Canada has been undertaken in view of the fact that there is little material of an organized and comprehensive nature available on this subject. It traces, in a general manner, the causes for the establishment of an organization of an exclusive character for the French Canadian Catholic worker out of the peculiar problems or the industrialization of Quebec and a complication of this process by the ethnic differences between the initiators of industrialization and the workers destined to be employed in production. Following an account of the growth and development of the organization, there is an examination of the philosophy and ideology of the Catholic labor movement in order to point out the differences which exist betweent these and the non-sectarian labor unions of Canada. The latter part of the thesis is devoted to a study of the attitude of the Catholic Syndicates towards the general labor movement (T.L.C. and C.C.L.) and its effectiveness as a union organization in performing the function and achieving the aims of unionism