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by Maggie Craig


  Tom Johnston wrote an epitaph for James Maxton which could equally apply to himself, Helen Crawfurd, Mary Barbour and so many more of the Red Clydesiders:

  He played a forever memorable part in changing a public opinion which was complacent and acquiescent in face of needless suffering in the midst of plenty, to one that was resolutely determined upon fairer shares for all.

  Warm and witty, kind-hearted and generous, interested in everything and everyone, the spirited men and women of Red Clydeside had one goal they set above all other things. It came before their own self-interest and self-advancement. Some sacrificed their liberty for it, some their health, some even their lives. Their aim was this: to create a fair and just society, one in which the children of the poor had as much right as the children of the rich to good health, happiness, education, creative expression and opportunity.

  The world has changed. Politics has changed. We’ve all become deeply cynical about politicians. Political earthquakes or not, we all recognize the truth in the old saying that we Scots don’t need enemies, we have each other.

  Yet one thing does not change: the democratic spirit of the Scottish people, the belief that we’re all Jock Tamson’s bairns. Whatever our political views and the nuances within them, many of us still hold the ideals of the Red Clydesiders close to our hearts. It’s what makes us who we are.

  Select Bibliography

  Bell, Thomas, Pioneering Days, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1941

  Brown, Gordon, Maxton, Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh, 1986

  Buchan, Alasdair, The Right to Work: The Story of the Upper Clyde Confrontation, Calder and Boyars, London, 1972

  Canning, Audrey, ‘Margaret Irwin – S.T.U.C. 100 Years’, Scottish Marxist Voice, Issue 6, 1997

  Casciani, Elizabeth, Oh, How We Danced!, Mercat Press, Edinburgh, 1994

  Chalmers, A.K., The Health of Glasgow, 1818–1925, Glasgow Corporation, Glasgow, 1930

  Crawfurd, Helen, Unpublished Memoir, Marx Memorial Library, London (copy held by Gallacher Memorial Library, Glasgow Caledonian University)

  Damer, Seán, Rent Strike!: The Clydebank Rent Struggles of the 1920s, Clydebank Library, Glasgow, 1982

  Gallacher, William, The Chosen Few, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1940

  Gallacher, William, Revolt on the Clyde: An Autobiography, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1980

  Glasgow Labour History Workshop, The Singer Strike: Clydebank, 1911, Clydebank District Libraries, 1989

  Gray, Daniel, Homage to Caledonia: Scotland and the Spanish Civil War, Luath Press, Edinburgh, 2008

  Hanham, H.J., Scottish Nationalism, Faber and Faber Ltd, London, 1969

  Hood, John, The History of Clydebank, Parthenon Publishing/Clydebank District Council, Carnforth, 1988

  Johnston, Thomas, Our Scots Noble Families, Forward Publishing Co. Ltd, Glasgow, 1909

  Johnston, Thomas, The History of the Working Classes in Scotland, Forward Publishing Co. Ltd, Glasgow, 1922

  Johnston, Thomas, Memories, Collins, London, 1952

  Kenna, Rudolph, Old Glasgow Shops, Glasgow City Libraries & Archives, Glasgow, 1996

  Kinchin, Perilla, Tea and Taste: The Glasgow Tea Rooms 1875–1975, White Cockade Publishing, Dorchester, 1991

  Kinchin, Perilla, Miss Cranston: Patron of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, NMS-Publishing, Edinburgh, 1999

  King, Elspeth, The Scottish Women’s Suffrage Movement, People’s Palace Museum, Glasgow Green, 1978

  King, Elspeth, The Hidden History of Glasgow’s Women, Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh, 1993

  Kirkwood, David, My Life of Revolt, Harrap & Co., London, 1935

  Leneman, Leah, The Scottish Suffragettes, NMS-Publishing, Edinburgh, 2000

  Lewenhak, Sheila, Women and Trade Unions, Ernest Benn, London, 1977

  MacCormick, John, The Flag in the Wind, Birlinn, Edinburgh, 2008

  Maclean, John, Condemned from the Dock: John Maclean’s speech from the dock 1918, International Marxist Group, London, undated

  McKean, Walker & Walker, Central Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide (Limited Edition), The Rutland Press, Edinburgh, 1999

  McKinlay, Alan, Making Ships Making Men: Working for John Brown’s – Between the Wars, Clydebank District Libraries, Clydebank, 1991

  McLean, Iain, The Legend of Red Clydeside, John Donald, Edinburgh, 1983

  MacPhail, I.M.M., The Clydebank Blitz, Clydebank District Libraries, 1974

  McShane, Harry (Introduction), Glasgow 1919: The Story of the 40 Hours Strike, Molendinar Press, Kirkintilloch, undated

  McShane, Harry, Three Days That Shook Edinburgh, AK Press, Oakland, California, USA, 1994

  Milton, Nan, John Maclean, Pluto Press, London, 1973

  Muir, James Hamilton, Glasgow in 1901, White Cockade Publishing, Dorchester, 2001

  Rowbotham, Sheila, New World for Women: Stella Browne, Socialist Feminist, Pluto Press, London, 1977

  Sanger, Margaret, The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger, Dover Publications, 2004

  Smyth, J.J., Labour in Glasgow, 1896–1936, Socialism, Suffrage, Sectarianism, Tuckwell Press, East Linton, 2000

  Stewart, William, J. Keir Hardie: A Biography, Cassell, London, 1921

  Struthers, Sheila, Old Clydebank, Stenlake Publishing, Ayrshire, 2001

  Young, James D., The Very Bastards of Creation: Scottish International Radicalism 1707–1995: A Biographical Study, Clydeside Press, Glasgow, 1996

  Newspapers Consulted

  The Bailie

  The Bulletin

  Daily Record

  Evening News(Glasgow)

  Evening Times

  Forward

  Glasgow Herald

  The Scotsman

  Online Resources

  Glasgow Digital Library: gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk

  Hansard Online: hansard.millbanksystems.com

  National Library of Scotland: www.nls.uk

  Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: www.oxforddnb.com

  Scran: www.scran.ac.uk

  Spartacus Educational: www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk

 

 

 


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