The first labor organization gathering to be described as an Industrial Congress was the founding convention of the Industrial Workers of the World, which took place in 1905.
A labor organization with a similar name, the Congress of Industrial Organizations, or the CIO, was founded in 1935 by eight unions that were a part of the American Federation of Labor.
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—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)