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- ↑ Beretning for aaret. Oslo: Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions. 1924.
- ↑ Ebbinghaus, Bernhard; Visser, Jelle (2000). Trade Unions in Western Europe Since 1945. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 522. ISBN 0333771125.