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- 1 2 3 Marsh, Arthur; Smethurst, John B. (2006). Historical Directory of Trade Unions. 5. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing. pp. 18–19, 29. ISBN 085967990X.
- ↑ Frank Bealey and Henry Pelling, Labour and Politics, 1900-1906, pp.290-292