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  41 Ibid., p. 250

  42 Gordon Brown, Maxton, p. 83

  43 Ibid.

  44 John Leopold, ‘Forty Hours Strike’, in Laurie Flynn (ed.), We Shall Be All: Recent Chapters in the History of Working Class Struggle in Scotland, Bookmarks, 1978, pp. 34–35

  45 Ibid., p. 36

  46 Ibid., p. 37

  47 Ibid.

  48 Ibid., pp. 37–38

  49 Ibid., p. 39

  50 Ibid.

  51 Ibid., p. 40

  52 John Foster, ‘Strike Action and Working Class Politics on Clydeside 1914–1919’, International Review of Social History 35:1, (1990) p. 55

  53 R. A. Leeson, Strike: A Live History 1887–1971, George Allen and Unwin, 1973, p. 61

  54 Iain McLean, The Legend of Red Clydeside, p. 133

  55 Ibid., p. 125

  56 J. T. Murphy, Preparing for Power, Pluto Press, 1972, pp. 176–77

  57 William Gallacher, Revolt on the Clyde, p. 220

  58 Nan Milton (ed.), John Maclean: In the Rapids of Revolution, Allison and Busby, 1978, p. 14

  59 Ibid., p. 77

  60 Nan Milton, John Maclean, Pluto Press, 1973, p. 99

  61 B. J. Ripley and J. McHugh, John Maclean, Manchester University Press, 1989, p. 106

  62 Nan Milton (ed.), John Maclean: In the Rapids of Revolution, p. 101

  63 Nan Milton, John Maclean, p. 180

  64 Tom Gallagher, Glasgow, the Uneasy Peace, Manchester University Press, 1987, p. 88; and Nan Milton, John Maclean, p. 203

  65 Nan Milton, John Maclean, p. 238

  66 Nan Milton (ed.), John Maclean: In the Rapids of Revolution, p. 178

  67 Ibid., p. 233

  68 Ibid., p. 225

  69 Ibid., pp. 247–48

  70 Ibid., p. 234

  71 Ibid., p. 253

  10. The 1920s: Economic Decline and General Strike

  1 Michael S. Moss and John R. Hume, Shipbuilders to the World: 125 Years of Harland and Wolff, Belfast 1861–1986, Blackstaff Press, 1986, p. 192

  2 C. E. V. Leser, ‘Manufacturing Industry’, in Alec Cairncross (ed.), The Scottish Economy: A Statistical Account of Scottish Life, Cambridge University Press, 1954, p. 121

  3 Marjory Harper, Emigration from Scotland between the Wars: Opportunity or Exile? Manchester University Press, 1998, pp. 10–11

  4 ‘Tarbrax Village’, Museum of the Scottish Shale Industry, scottishshale.co.uk/GazVillages/TarbraxVillage.html, accessed 14 May 2013

  5 Michael Anderson, ‘The Demographic Factor’, in T. M. Devine and Jenny Wormald (eds), The Oxford History of Modern Scotland, Oxford University Press, 2012, p. 52

  6 T. C. Smout, ‘Scotland 1850–1950’, in Francis Michael Longsteth Thompson, The Cambridge Social History of Britain, 1750–1950, Cambridge University press, 1993, p. 260

  7 T. C. Smout, A Century of the Scottish People 1830–1950, pp. 75–76

  8 Roger Hutchison, The Soap Man: Lewis, Harris and Lord Leverhulme, Berlinn, 2003, p. 126

  9 James Hunter, The Making of the Crofting Community, John Donald, 2006, p. 272

  10 Paul Richard Thompson, Tony Walley and Trevor Lums, Living the Fishing, Routledge, 1983, p. 305

  11 Ibid., p. 306

  12 Marjory Harper, ‘Crofter Colonists in Western Canada’, in Philip Buckner and R. Douglas Francis (eds), Canada and the British World: Culture, Migration and Identity, University of British Columbia Press, 2006, pp. 198–205

  13 William Kenefick, Red Scotland! The Rise and Fall of the Radical Left, 1872 to 1932, Edinburgh University Press, 2007, p. 133

  14 Christopher Harvie, ‘Before the Breakthrough, 1886–1922’, p. 24

  15 Ibid., p. 25

  16 Ibid., pp. 27–28

  17 Ibid., p. 26

  18 William Knox, ‘“Ours Is Not an Ordinary Parliamentary Movement”: 1922–1926’, in Alan McKinlay and R. J. Morris (eds), The ILP on Clydeside 1893–1932: From Foundation to Disintegration, Manchester University Press, 1991, p. 154

  19 Ibid., p. 159

  20 Gordon Brown, Maxton, pp. 145–46

  21 William Knox, ‘“Ours Is Not an Ordinary Parliamentary Movement”: 1922–1926’, p. 159

  22 Ibid., p. 161

  23 Gordon Brown, Maxton, p. 154

  24 Ibid.

  25 Ibid., p. 161

  26 J. J. Smyth, Labour in Glasgow 1996–1936: Socialism, Suffrage, Sectarianism, Tuckwell Press, 2000, pp. 109–10 and 185–87

  27 Annemarie Hughes, Gender and Political Identities in Scotland 1919–1939, Edinburgh University Press, 2010, p. 123

  28 Gordon Brown, Maxton, p. 101

  29 Tom Gallagher, Glasgow, the Uneasy Peace, pp. 88–89

  30 Ibid., p. 90

  31 Máirtín Ó Catháin, ‘“A Winnowing Spirit”: Sinn Fein in Scotland, 1905–38’, academia.edu/4725333/A_Winnowing_Spirit_Sinn_Fein_in_Scotland_1905–38, accessed 13 October 2013

  32 Tom Gallagher, Glasgow, the Uneasy Peace, p. 91

  33 ‘Folk Singer Reader’s Relative Ferried Arms for IRA’, Belfast Newsletter, 1 October 2013, accessed 15 October 2013

  34 Tom Gallagher, Glasgow, the Uneasy Peace, p. 91

  35 Bill Kelly, Sworn to be Free: The Complete Book of IRA Jailbreaks 1918–1921, Anvil Books, 1971, pp. 126–28

  36 Tom Gallagher, Glasgow, the Uneasy Peace, pp. 95–96

  37 Ibid., p. 94

  38 Catriona Burness, The Making of Scottish Unionism 1886–1914, Routledge, 2002, p. 31

  39 Colin Kidd, Union and Unionism: Political Thought in Scotland, Cambridge University Press, 2008, p. 15

  40 Callum G. Brown, Religion and Society in Scotland Since 1707, Edinburgh University Press, 1997, p. 141

  41 Stewart J. Brown, ‘Presbyterians and Catholics in Twentieth Century Scotland’, in Stewart J. Brown, George M. Newlands and Alexander C. Cheyne (eds), Scottish Christianity in the Modern World: In Honour of A. C. Cheyne, T. and T. Clark, 2001, p. 265

  42 Ibid.

  43 Ibid., p. 268

  44 Séan Damer, ‘“The Clyde Rent War!” The Clydebank Rent Strike of the 1920s’, in Gerry Mooney (ed.), Class Struggle and Social Welfare, Routledge, 2000, p. 76

  45 ‘Jane Rae’, west-dunbarton.gov.uk/tourism-and-visitor-attractions/museums-and-galleries/collections/people-and-personalities/people-and-personalities-clydebank/individuals-clydebank/jane-rae/, accessed 18 September 2012

  46 ‘Jenny Hislop’, grahamstevenson.me.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=293:jenny-hyslop-&catid=8:h&itemid=109, accessed 18 September 2012

  47 Bert Moorhouse, Mary Wilson and Chris Chamberlain, ‘Rent Strikes, Direct Action and the Working Class’, in Ralph Miliband and John Saville (eds), Socialist Register 1972, Merlin, 1972, p. 137

  48 Ibid.

  49 Glasgow Herald, 14 July 1924

  50 Barrier Miner, 31 December 1924

  51 Barrier Miner, 5 February 1925

  52 Independent, 14 August 1992, accessed 24 September

  53 Jock Kane with Betty Kane, ‘No wonder we were all rebels – an oral history’, grahamstevenson.me.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=697&itemid=63, accessed 24 September 2012

  54 Roy A. Church and Quentin Outram, Strikes and Solidarity: Coalfield Conflict in Britain, 1889–1966, Cambridge University Press, 2002, p. 81

  55 Mary Docherty, A Miner’s Lass, Lancashire Community Press, 1992, p. 35

  56 Ibid., p. 37

  57 Independent, 14 August 1992

  58 ‘Perthshire and the 1926 General Strike’, Alternative Perthshire, accessed 13 May 2013

  59 Ibid.

  60 Laurie Flynn, ‘The People’s Republic’, in Laurie Flynn (ed.), We Shall Be All: Recent Chapters in the History of Working Class Struggle in Scotland, p. 10

  61 James Klugmann, ‘Marxism, Reformism and the General Strike’, in Jeffrey Skelley (ed.), The General Strike, 1926, Lawrence and Wishart, 1976, p. 88

  62 Laurie Flynn, ‘The People’s Republic’, p. 11

  63 James Klugmann, ‘Marxism, Reformism and the
General Strike’, p. 88

  64 Tony Cliff and Donny Gluckstein, Marxism and Trade Union Struggle: The General Strike of 1926, Bookmarks, 1986, p. 235

  65 Chris Farman, May 1926, The General Strike, Britain’s Aborted Revolution? Granada, 1974, p. 205

  66 Tony Cliff and Donny Gluckstein, Marxism and Trade Union Struggle: The General Strike of 1926, p. 196

  67 Ibid., p. 199

  68 Ibid.

  69 Ibid., p. 226

  70 Paul Carter, ‘The West of Scotland’, in Jeffrey Skelley (ed). The General Strike, 1926, p. 116

  71 Ibid.

  72 J. J. Smyth, Labour in Glasgow 1896–1936: Socialism, Suffrage, Sectarianism, p. 107

  73 Paul Carter, ‘The West of Scotland’, p. 133

  74 Chris Farman, May 1926, The General Strike, Britain’s Aborted Revolution?, p. 239

  75 Paul Carter, ‘The West of Scotland’, p. 123

  76 Chris Farman, May 1926, The General Strike, Britain’s Aborted Revolution?, p. 158

  77 Ian MacDougall, ‘Edinburgh’, in Jeffrey Skelley (ed.), The General Strike, 1926, p. 150

  78 Ibid., pp. 150–51

  79 Chris Farman, May 1926, The General Strike, Britain’s Aborted Revolution?, p. 232

  80 Annemarie Hughes, Gender and Political Identities in Scotland 1919–1939, Edinburgh University Press, 2010, p. 99

  81 J. J. Smyth, Labour in Glasgow 1896–1936: Socialism, Suffrage, Sectarianism, p. 107

  82 ‘Perthshire and the 1926 General Strike’, Alternative Perthshire, accessed 13 May 2013

  83 Ibid.

  84 Laurie Flynn, ‘The People’s Republic’, p. 12

  85 Tony Cliff and Donny Gluckstein, Marxism and Trade Union Struggle: The General Strike of 1926, pp. 252–53

  86 Laurie Flynn, ‘The People’s Republic’, pp. 112–13

  87 Robert Duncan, The Mine Workers, pp. 230–31

  88 R. A. Leeson, Strike: A Live History 1887–1971, p. 105

  89 Jock Kane with Betty Kane, ‘No wonder we were all rebels – an oral history’ accessed 24 September 2012

  90 J. J. Smyth, Labour in Glasgow 1996–1936: Socialism, Suffrage, Sectarianism, p. 108

  91 Robert Duncan, The Mine Workers, p. 233

  92 Ibid., p. 234

  93 ‘Helen Crawfurd – Political Activist, Suffragette and Red Cydesider’, Alternative Perthshire, alternative-perth.co.uk/helencrawfurd.htm, accessed 11 May 2013

  94 Kevin Morgan, Gideon Cohen and Andrew Flinn, Communists and British Society 1920–1991, Rivers Oram Press, 2007, p. 154

  95 Ibid.

  96 Graham Stevenson, ‘Communist Biogs: Helen Crawfurd’, grahamstevenson.me.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=128:helen-craw-furd-anderson&catid=3:c&Itemid=99, accessed 11 May 2013

  97 Seán Damer, ‘State Class and Housing: Glasgow 1885–1919’, p. 92

  98 William Kenefick, Red Scotland!: The Rise and Fall of the Radical Left, 1872 to 1932, p. 148

  99 Esther Breitenbach and Eleanor Gordon, Out of Bounds: Women in Scottish Society 1800–1945, Edinburgh University Press, 1992, p. 181

  100 Andy Thorpe, The British Communist Party and Moscow: 1920–43, Manchester University Press, 2000, p. 35

  101 Jill Liddington, The Road to Greenham Common: Feminism and Anti-Militarism in Britain Since 1820, Syracuse University Press, 1989, p. 131

  102 Graham Stevenson, ‘Communist Biogs: Helen Crawfurd’

  103 Mary Davis, Sylvia Pankhurst: A Life in Radical Politics, Pluto Press, 1999, p. 93

  104 Graham Stevenson, ‘Communist Biogs: Helen Crawfurd’

  105 Ibid.

  11. The Great Depression: Suffering and Resistance

  1 T. C. Smout, A Century of the Scottish People 1830–1950, p. 115

  2 Ibid., p. 114

  3 William Knox, Industrial Nation: Work, Culture and Society in Scotland 1800–Present, p. 190

  4 T. C. Smout, A Century of the Scottish People 1830–1950, pp. 114–15

  5 Edwin Muir, Scottish Journey, Mainstream, 1996, p. 139

  6 William Knox, Industrial Nation: Work, Culture and Society in Scotland 1800–Present, p. 192

  7 Ibid.

  8 Richard Croucher, We Refuse to Starve in Silence: A History of the National Unemployed Workers Movement 1920–1946, Lawrence and Wishart, 1987, pp. 18–21

  9 Ibid., pp. 48–49

  10 George Rawlinson, ‘Mobilising the Unemployed: The National Unemployed Workers’ Movement in the West of Scotland’, in Robert Duncan and Arthur McIvor (eds), Militant Workers: Labour and Class Conflict on the Clyde 1900–1950, Essays in Honour of Harry McShane (1891-1988), John Donald, 1992, p. 185

  11 Ibid., p. 189

  12 Ibid., p. 190

  13 Ibid., p. 187

  14 Ian MacDougall, Voices from the Hunger Marches: Personal Recollections by Scottish Hunger Marchers of the 1920s and 1930s, vol. 1, Polygon, 1990, p. 147

  15 Ibid., p. 130

  16 Ian MacDougall, Voices from the Hunger Marches: Personal Recollections by Scottish Hunger Marchers of the 1920s and 1930s, vol. 2, Polygon, 1991, p. 282

  17 Richard Croucher, We Refuse to Starve in Silence: A History of the National Unemployed Workers Movement 1920–1946, p. 158

  18 Ibid., p. 166

  19 Ibid., pp. 192–93

  20 J. J. Smyth, Labour in Glasgow 1896–1936: Socialism, Suffrage, Sectarianism, p. 148

  21 Tom Gallagher, Edinburgh Divided: John Cormack and No Popery in the 1930s, Polygon, 1987, p. 111

  22 Ibid., p. 39

  23 Ibid., pp. 51–53

  24 Ibid., p. 123

  25 Ibid., p. 145

  26 Tom Gallagher, Glasgow, the Uneasy Peace, p. 155

  27 Ibid., p. 153

  28 Stephen M. Cullen, ‘The Fasces and the Saltire: The Failure of the British Union of Fascists in Scotland, 1932–1940’, Scottish Historical Review LXXXVIII, 2, 224 (October 2008), pp. 314–15

  29 Ibid., p. 312

  30 Stephen Dorril, Blackshirt: Sir Oswald Mosley and British Fascism, Penguin, 2007, pp. 293, 453

  31 Martin Pugh, ‘Hurrah for the Blackshirts’: Fascists and Fascism in Britain Between the Wars, Jonathan Cape, 2005, p. 231

  32 Ibid., pp. 312, 315

  33 Henry Maitles, ‘Blackshirts Across the Border’, Socialist Review, 172 (February 1994)

  34 Ibid.

  35 Ibid.

  36 Ian McDougall (ed.), Voices from the Spanish Civil War, Polygon, 1986, p. 241

  37 ‘The Leader in Scotland’, The Blackshirt, 8 June 1934

  38 Ian MacDougall (ed.), Voices from the Spanish Civil War, p. 33

  39 ‘Fascist Meeting Sequel’, The Scotsman, 6 June 1936

  40 Daniel Gray, Homage to Caledonia, Luath Press, 2008, p. 26

  41 Colin Cross, The Fascists in Britain, St Martin’s Press, 1963, p. 108

  42 Juliet Gardiner, The Thirties: An Intimate History, HarperCollins, 2011, p. 406

  43 ‘The Amazing Life Of Bob Cooney Part 2 – Fighting Fascism’, 18 July 2011, http://aberdeenvoice.com/tag/brigade/, accessed 6 October 2012

  44 ‘Blackshirts in Red Scotland’, http://afaarchive.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/blackshirts-in-red-scotland.pdf8, accessed 5 October 2012

  45 Nathan Abrams, Caledonian Jews: A Study of Seven Small Communities in Scotland, McFarland, 2009, p. 28

  46 Henry Maitles, ‘Blackshirts Across the Border’

  47 Daniel Gray, Homage to Caledonia, p. 19; and Ian MacDougall, ‘Scots in the Spanish Civil War 1936–1939’, in Grant G. Simpson (ed.), The Scottish Soldier Abroad, 1247–1967, Rowman & Littlefield, 1992, p. 146

  48 Ian MacDougall, ‘Scots in the Spanish Civil War 1936–1939’, pp. 132–33

  49 Ibid., p. 134

  50 Daniel Gray, Homage to Caledonia, p. 100

  51 Ibid., p. 51

  52 Ibid., p. 52

  53 Ibid., pp. 23–24

  54 Ibid., p. 25

  55 Ibid., p. 106

  56 Mary Docherty, A Miner’s Lass, Lancashire Community Press, 1992, p
. 140

  57 Daniel Gray, Homage to Caledonia, pp. 111–15

  58 Margery Palmer McCulloch, Scottish Modernism and Its Contexts 1918–1959: Literature, National Identity and Cultural Exchange, Edinburgh University Press, 2009, p. 108

  59 Daniel Gray, Homage to Caledonia, pp. 137–39

  60 Ibid., p. 203

  61 Julie Arnot, ‘Women Workers and Trade Union Participation in Scotland 1919–1939’, pp. 297–301, http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3086/01/1999arnotphd.pdf, accessed 9 October 2012

  62 Ibid.

  63 Ibid.

  64 Ibid.

  65 Richard Croucher, Engineers At War 1939–1945, Merlin, 1982, pp. 13–14

  66 Ibid., p. 45

  67 Ibid., pp. 49–50

  68 Nina Fishman, The British Communist Party and the Trade Unions 1933–1945, Scolar Press, 1995, pp. 95–96

  69 Richard Croucher, Engineers At War 1939–1945, pp. 51–52

  70 Ibid., p. 52

  71 Nina Fishman, The British Communist Party and the Trade Unions 1933–1945, pp. 95–96

  72 Richard Croucher, Engineers At War 1939–1945, p. 71

  73 Nina Fishman, The British Communist Party and the Trade Unions 1933–1945, p. 201

  74 Clive Howard Lee, Scotland and the United Kingdom: The Economy and the Union in the Twentieth Century, Manchester University Press, 2005, p. 18

  75 T. M. Devine, The Scottish Nation 1700–2000, p. 325

  76 Ian Donnachie, ‘Scottish Labour in the Depression: The 1930s’, in Ian Donnachie, Christopher Harvie and Ian S. Wood (eds), Forward! Labour Politics in Scotland 1888–1988, p. 55

  77 Tim Pat Coogan, Wherever Green Is Worn, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, pp. 229–30

  78 Dr. Robert D McIntyre, ‘The Scottish National Party in the Nineteen Thirties’, electricscotland.com/history/mcintyre/chap5.htm, Accessed 19 October

  2012

  79 Parliamentary Debates: Official Report, vol. 272, His Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1933, pp. 285–6.

  80 Attila Dosa, Beyond Identity: New Horizons in Modern Scottish Poetry, Rodopi, 2009, p. 87

  81 Rebecca Wilson, Gillean Somerville-Arjat (eds), Sleeping With Monsters: Conversations with Scottish and Irish Women Poets, Polygon, 1990, p. v

  82 Hugh MacDiarmid, ‘The Politics and Poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid’, in Selected Essays of Hugh MacDiarmid, University of California Press, 1970, p. 22

  83 Hugh MacDiarmid and Alan Bold (ed.), The Thistle Rises: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose, Hamish Hamilton, 1984, p. 289

 

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