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- ↑ Handbook of American Trade Unions (PDF). Washington DC: United States Department of Labor. 1926. Retrieved 24 April 2022.
- ↑ Zahavi, Gerald (1988). Workers, Managers, and Welfare Capitalism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. p. 153–154. ISBN 0252014448.