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- 1 2 3 4 Arthur Marsh and Victoria Ryan, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, vol.3, pp.280-281
- ↑ Keith Laybourn, A History of British Trade Unionism (1992) pp 72-76
- 1 2 Jonathan Schneer, Ben Tillett: portrait of a labour leader (1982)
- ↑ Frank Bealey and Henry Pelling, Labour and Politics, 1900-1906, pp.290-292
- ↑ Labour, Report of the 19th Annual Conference of the Labour Party
- ↑ Labour Party (1918), Report of the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, p.192
- ↑ Declan McHugh, Labour in the City: The Development of the Labour Party in Manchester 1918-31, p.196
