Clyde Workers' Committee
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The Clyde Workers Committee was formed to campaign against the Munitions Act. The leader of the CWC was Willie Gallacher
, who was jailed under the Defense of the Realm Act together with John Muir for an article in the CWC journal The Worker criticising World War I
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Willie Gallacher
William "Willie" Gallacher was a Scottish trade unionist, activist and communist. He was one of the leading figures of the Shop Stewards' Movement in wartime Glasgow and a founding member of the Communist Party of Great Britain...
, who was jailed under the Defense of the Realm Act together with John Muir for an article in the CWC journal The Worker criticising World War I
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
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