On January 31, 1919 striking workers, demanding lowering of working hours fought police in the centre of Glasgow. Coming barely a year after the Russian Revolution, the Secretary of State for Scotland declared the strike a “Bolshevist uprising.” Thousands of troops and tanks were deployed to crush the strike. The strike was to lower the working week to 40 hours from 54-hour average.
1919 workers strike in Glasgow
Coming barely a year after the Russian Revolution, the Secretary of State for Scotland declared the strike a “Bolshevist uprising.”
