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- ↑ "Official Report". archive2021.parliament.scot. 24 January 2014.
- ↑ Angela Tuckett, The Scottish Trades Union Congress: the first 80 years, 1897-1977
- ↑ Scottish Trades Union Congress, "Report of General Council to Annual Congress (2008), pp.72-73
