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Few states--it is surely a significant thing--have ever won from their subjects a loyalty so profound as the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain, or the trade unions in the cotton trades.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski remarks on the profound loyalty that the Miners’ Federation and certain trade unions have garnered from their members.
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