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- ↑ Cottle, Drew; Keys, Angela. "The Harco 'Stay-Put': Workers' Control In One Factory?" (PDF). Vintage Reds: Australian Stories of Rank and File Organising.
- ↑ "INDUSTRIAL NEWS J Objection to use of new union title". The Canberra Times . 28 June 1972. p. 14. Retrieved 21 March 2020– via Trove.
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