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DURING THE 1920S AND early 1930s the struggle for industrial unionism in the Canadian auto industry was predominantly organized and led by Communist Party members. They, however, had little success with workers whose enjoyment of unusually high industrial wages was tempered by the knowledge that they themselves were almost as replaceable and interchangeable as the parts they assembled. An upswing of industrial militancy in the 1928-9 boom suggested that Fordism was not immutable, but any possibility of establishing a red auto union disappeared with the arrival of the Depression. Nevertheless, during the grimmest crisis years, Communists kept the idea of industrial unionism alive, and in semi-clandestine conditions built a network of union activists. The formation of the CIO and UAW gave this group the opportunity to turn their aspirations into reality. PENDANT LES ANNEES vingt et au debut des annees trente, la lutte pour le syndicalisme industriel dans l'industrie automobile canadienne etait surtout menee par des membres du Parti communiste. Ils eurent cependant peu de succes aupres de travailleurs qui jouissaient de salaires superieurs et se savaient presqu'aussi remplacables et interchangeables que les pieces qu'ils assemblaient. En 1928 et 1929, annees de boom economique, une remontee du militantisme industriel suggera que le fordisme n'etait pas immuable, mais avec la depression des annees trente disparut toute possibilite d'etablir un syndicat rouge dans l'industrie automobile. Toutefois, pendant les pires annees de la crise, les communistes maintinrent l'ideal du syndicalisme industriel et dans la semi-clandestinite formerent un reseau d'activistes syndicaux. La formation du COI et des TUA donna a ces militants l'occasion de transformer leurs aspirations en realites.
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