A.B.C. of Chairmanship by Walter Citrine is considered by many in the Labour and Union movements of the UK to be the definitive book on how meetings should be run and how committees should be managed. It originated as notes for Electrical Trades Union (ETU) activists in the Merseyside area of the UK– they had Liverpool, Birkenhead and Bootle branches - in the 1910s by Citrine who was then Chairman of their District Committee. Walter Citrine was a leading British trade unionist of the twentieth century.