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- ↑ Labour Party, Report of the Forty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, p.74
- ↑ Eaton, Jack; Gill, Colin (1981). The Trade Union Directory. London: Pluto Press. p. 92-95.
- ↑ Labour Party, Report of the Sixty-Third Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp.158-180
- ↑ Labour Party, Report of the Sixty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp.308-330
- ↑ Labour Party, Report of the Sixty-Ninth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp.289-312