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References
- ↑ Webb, Sidney; Webb, Beatrice (1894). History of Trade Unionism . London: Longmans Green and Co. pp. 120–124.
- ↑ Webb & Webb 1894, p. 122.
Further reading
- Address of the National Association for the Protection of Labour to the Workmen of the United Kingdom (4 pp. 1830), in Home Office Papers, 40-27.
