Claude Jodoin was a Canadian trade unionist and politician.
11 Facts About Claude Jodoin
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Claude Jodoin served as the first president of the Canadian Labour Congress from 1956 to 1966.
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Claude Jodoin lost his seat in 1944 and was defeated in an attempt to regain a seat in the Legislature as an independent candidate in 1948.
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Claude Jodoin had been leader of the Young Liberals of Canada in 1939.
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Claude Jodoin was offered a seat in the Senate of Canada by Prime Minister Louis St Laurent in 1956 but turned it down.
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From 1944, Claude Jodoin served as the first chair of the Trade and Labour Council of Canada's National Standing Committee on Racial Discrimination.
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Claude Jodoin had served as president of the Montreal Trades and Labour Council and became president of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada in 1954.
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Claude Jodoin led the TLC in unity talks with the Canadian Congress of Labour that lead to their merger, creating the Canadian Labour Congress.
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Claude Jodoin won election five times as the Labour Congress' president, the last in 1966.
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On 1 March 1975, Claude Jodoin finally succumbed to the medical complications brought on by his stroke.
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Claude Jodoin was buried in Montreal three days later in Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery.