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LABOUR IN GLASGOW , 18961936

S OCIALISM, SUFFRAGE, SECTARIANISM

Scottish Historical Review Monographs are major works of scholarly research covering all aspects of Scottish history. They are selected and sponsored by the Scottish Historical Review Trust, in conjunction with Tuckwell Press

EDITORIAL BOARD

Ewen A. Cameron, Edward J. Cowan and Roger A. Mason, with the Trustees of the SHR Trust

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11 J. J. Smyth	Labour in Glasgow, 18961936. Socialism, Suffrage, Sectarianism

LABOUR IN GLASGOW, 18961936

Socialism, Suffrage, Sectarianism

J. J. SMYTH

This eBook was published in Great Britain in 2021 by John Donald,

an imprint of Birlinn Ltd

Birlinn Ltd

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First published in Great Britain in 2000 by Tuckwell Press

Copyright J. J. Smyth, 2000

eBook ISBN 978 1 78885 398 9

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A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored, or transmitted in any form, or by any means electronic, mechanical or photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the express written permission of the publisher.

The right of J. J. Smyth to be identified as the author of this book has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Design and Patent Act 1988

For my mother. Frances Livingstone Smyth,
And in memory of my father Edward Smyth

Contents

Acknowledgements

This book has had a long gestation and I have accumulated many debts along the way. I thank colleagues, past and present, at the Departments of Economic and Social History at Edinburgh and Glasgow, and the Department of History at Stirling University. I would like to mention Bob Morris, Roger Davidson, Frank Bechhofer and George Peden for all their help, Ewen Cameron for undertaking the onerous task of editing my typescript and, in particular, Alan McKinlay for all his critical encouragement and friendship. My deepest thank you, as ever, is to Fay.

List of Abbreviations

ASE	Amalgamated Society of Engineers
BSP	British Socialist Party
CP	Communist Party
CSCC	Central Strike Co-ordinating Committee
CWC	Clyde Workers Committee
CSS	Catholic Socialist Society
DLP	Divisional Labour Party
DORA	Defence of the Realm Act
GWHA	Glasgow Womens Housing Association
GWSSWS	Glasgow and West of Scotland Society for Womens Suffrage
HGB	Home Government Branch
ILP	Independent Labour Party
INL	Irish National League of Great Britain
LEA	Local Education Authorities
LPHC	Labour Party Housing Committee
LRC	Labour Representation Committee
MEA	Municipal Employees Association
MCU	Middle Class Union
NAC	National Administrative Council
NUWSS	National Union of Womens Suffrage Societies
PLP	Parliamentary Labour Party
SCWG	Scottish Co-operative Womens Guild
SLP	Scottish Labour Party
SocLP	Socialist Labour Party
SLRL	Scottish Land Restoration League
SDF	Social Democratic Federation
SPL	Scottish Protestant League
SSP	Scottish Socialist Party
STUC	Scottish Trade Union Congress
SUTCLP	Scottish United Trades Councils Labour Party
SWRC	Scottish Workers Representation Committee
UIL	United Irish League
WEC	Workers Election Committee
WFL	Womens Freedom League
WIL	Womens International League
WLL	Womens Labour League
WPC	Womens Peace Crusade
WSPU	Womens Social and Political Union

INTRODUCTION

Labour and its Electorate

The continuing debate over the rise of the Labour Party and the concomitant demise of the Liberals shows little sign of abating. Each generation returns to the issue with new questions and fresh insights provoked by contemporary political developments. With the success of a militant right-wing Conservatism in the 1980s, Labours so-called forward march appeared as a problematic, contingent phenomenon.

While there are a number of recent studies at both local and national levels which offer analyses and explanations of Labours rise there is, as yet, no widely accepted consensus. Was Labour already threatening the Liberals before 1914, or was Labours breakthrough after and due to the War? And, if so, was this the result of a radicalisation of, and increasing unity within, the working class, or was it due to a more moderate perception by trade unionists that war-time collectivism showed the State and state intervention

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