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The strike that changed the nature of Labour politics
JOHN FOSTER looks at how the 1919 general strike which began in the Clydeside shipyards ignited a Britain-wide struggle
Troops on guard at a bus station; each bus had a police escort during the strike
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MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
ONE HUNDRED years ago, on January 27 1919, workers in Scotland struck work to secure a 40-hour week. The strike was called by the Scottish Trade Union Congress, Glasgow Trades and Labour Council — then one of the biggest in Britain with 200 delegates — and the Clyde Workers Committee representing the shop stewards’ movement.
It was a political strike. It demanded action by the government to limit hours of work — and thereby to create more jobs and halt the return of mass unemployment. Millions of men were being discharged from the army and tens of thousands of women from the munitions factories.
The longer-term objective was to protect the bargaining power which trade unionists had built up during the full employment of the war years and particularly the power of the shop stewards’ movement.
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