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References
- 1 2 Eaton, Jack; Gill, Colin (1981). The Trade Union Directory. London: Pluto Press. p. 56. ISBN 0861043502.
- ↑ John B. Smethurst and Peter Carter, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, p.146
- ↑ Labour Party (1918), Report of the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, p.192
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