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52:Features of New Model Trade Unions
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217:Prominent New Model Trade Unions
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251:Led for a time in the 1860s by
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211:Trades Union Congress
191:Trades Union Congress
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257:carpenters
228:engineers
172:John Kane
42:in their
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