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This is neither a history of the Canadian Congress of Labour nor of the CIO in Canada, but rather a study of the interaction of the two. Two basic conflicts - one internal, the other external - pervaded this relationship: the internal struggle of both organizations to rid themselves of their Communist-dominated affiliates, and the external battle of the Congress, and to a lesser etent of its CIO affiliates, to achieve and defend their autonomy in the face of the aggressive incursions of the American unions to the south. A corollary to this latter conflict was the desperate struggle of the Congress to maintain its authority over its international affiliates. These two themes - the internal threat from the Communists and the external threat from the Americans - dominate the entire history of the Congress from its creation in 1940. Besides these two issues, all others seem insigificant. ...This study is based largely on the files of the Canadian Labour Congress and its affiliates. Interviews have filled in whatever information was not available in this voluminous correspondence. --From author's preface

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