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Workers' organisation with means of raising flag (5,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

union jack

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'flag' is the definition.
(I know that Union Jack is a type of flag)

'workers' organisation with means of raising' is the wordplay.
'workers' organisation' becomes 'union' (I've seen this before).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'means of raising' becomes 'jack' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'union'+'jack'='UNION JACK'

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(Other definitions for union jack that I've seen before include "Colours" , "standard for us" , "National flag of United Kingdom" , "appears up the pole" , "UK's standard" .)

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