The Clyde Workers Committee was formed to campaign against the Munitions Act. It was originally called the Labour Withholding Committee. The leader of...
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position they tried to get the Clyde Workers' Committee to adopt. The Socialist Labour Party held a majority on the committee and disagreed, at one point...
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the Clyde Workers' Committee in Glasgow, but they were unwilling to back down on the issue. In 1916, the Clyde Workers' Committee journal, The Worker, was...
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labor union publication in Sydney, Australia The Worker, a newspaper of the Clyde Workers' Committee whose editor John William Muir was jailed in 1916...
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College, Kildare, Ireland Ceylon Workers' Congress, a Sri Lankan political party Clyde Workers' Committee, a Scottish workers' organisation during World War...
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Shop Stewards Movement (redirect from Shop Stewards' and Workers' Committees)
during the First World War. It originated with the Clyde Workers Committee, the first shop stewards committee in Britain, which organised against the imprisonment...
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across the United Kingdom. It began with the Clyde Workers Committee, Britain's first shop stewards committee, which organized in response to the imprisonment...
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through him in setting up a solidarity committee in support of victimised workers called the Clyde Workers Committee after the original organisation bearing...
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The West Indian Gazette (1959–1968). The Worker (1915–1916) – journal of the Clyde Workers' Committee. Workers' Dreadnought (1917–1924) – originally independent...
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the prospect of mass unemployment, which the Scottish TUC and Clyde Workers' Committee (CWC) sought to counter by increasing the availability of jobs...
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by T. L. Smith. Tom Bell saw the Red Clydeside movement and the Clyde Workers Committee as its most important continuation. The British Socialist Labour...
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1942. This led to suspicion of the body on Red Clydeside, and the Clyde Workers' Committee did not engage with the council. However, following World War I...
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Arthur MacManus (category Executive Committee of the Communist International)
introduction of conscription. MacManus became a leading member of the Clyde Workers Committee, and for supporting David Kirkwood in the William Beardmore and...
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a revolutionary nature, although he worked with others on the Clyde Workers' Committee who were more reformist in outlook, such as his friend James Maxton...
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Roman Catholic family, he became a Marxist. He was involved in the Clyde Workers Committee and the anti-war movement during the First World War. After the...
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to 230,000 in 1914. To mobilise the workers of Clydeside against the First World War, the Clyde Workers' Committee (CWC) was formed, with Willie Gallacher...
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employer, which in practice was "almost impossible" to obtain. The Clyde Workers' Committee was established to oppose the act. The Munitions Act was a response...
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David Kirkwood (category Independent Labour Party National Administrative Committee members)
Council and was a member of the Clyde Workers' Committee (CWC) chaired by Willie Gallacher. The CWC grew out of the Clyde engineers' pay dispute of 1915...
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John Muir (trade unionist) (category Workers' Educational Association)
December 1879 – 11 January 1931) was the editor of The Worker, a newspaper of the Clyde Workers' Committee, who was prosecuted under the Defence of the Realm...
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the ASE. Inspired by the Clyde Workers' Committee, Peet worked with William McLaine to form the Manchester Workers' Committee in April 1916. Initially...
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James Maxton (category Independent Labour Party National Administrative Committee members)
involved in organizing strikes in the shipyards as part of the Clyde Workers' Committee. Maxton was arrested in 1916, and charged with sedition. He was...
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active in the Socialist Labour Party. He was a founder of the Clyde Workers Committee during World War I, and soon after joined the Communist Party of...
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closely with the union's president, Tom Bell, and supported the Clyde Workers' Committee, giving strike pay to its members who took industrial action. With...
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Committee of the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC), serving as president of the STUC in 1918. In this role, he negotiated with the Clyde Workers'...
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his position to support the Clyde Workers' Committee during World War I. In 1916, most of the leading figures on the committee were imprisoned or deported...
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the Red Clydeside era. To mobilize the workers of Clydeside against World War I, the Clyde Workers' Committee (CWC) was formed, with Willie Gallacher...
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and Workers' Committee, and he worked closely with J. T. Murphy to establish the movement on a national basis, linking up with the Clyde Workers' Committee...
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people from joining the Army. The SLP was heavily involved in the Clyde Workers' Committee and, although he did not succeed in starting such a movement in...
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talks which attracted large crowds and influenced members of the Clyde Workers Committee (CWC). He criticised the CWC for focusing solely on industrial...
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the Clyde Workers Committee, but failed to win it to socialism. Other members, such as J.T. "Jack" Murphy, were influential in the Sheffield Workers Committee...
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