Committee for Industrial Organization

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In the history of American labor unions, the Committee for Industrial Organization embodied the first phase of the development of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, from the 1935 Committee's formation to the 1938 breach with the American Federation of Labor and the formation of a rival federation under the "Congress of ..." name. During that period, the CIO was a coalition of 8 unions within the AFL seeking changes in the AFL's direction; after it, 5 of those 8 unions left the AFL, and in the CIO set a common direction differing from the AFL's.

Lee Pressman served as general counsel of the CIO from June 1936 to March 1937.

The case of Hague v. C.I.O. arose out of events late in 1937, in the Committee period, but reached the US Supreme Court in 1939, in the Congress one.