Red Clydeside: the rent strikes and George Square

In wartime Glasgow, tenants led by women such as Mary Barbour refused rent rises from landlords profiting from incoming munitions workers; by November 1915 about 20,000 were on strike and Parliament froze rents. In January 1919 a strike for a 40-hour week ended in a police baton charge in George Square, and the government sent troops and tanks into the city.