[3] The union later joined the International Woodworkers of America (IWA)[4] and he became a leader in the movement rising to the position of president of Local 1-80 in 1948.
[3] He left his IWA position in 1962 to become executive vice-president of the Canadian Labour Congress serving until 1974 when he became CLC president.
[1] In 1976, he led the CLC in a national day of protest involving one million workers going on a one-day general strike against wage and price controls being implemented by the Liberal government of Pierre Trudeau.
[1] For his many years of national and international service to the labour movement, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada on June 25, 1978.
[6] For his service in international human rights and labour circles, Morris was promoted, on June 25, 1984, to highest class of the Order of Canada: Companion.