(1920-1921)
Introduction
The Worker was a weekly paper published in Glasgow, Scotland between 1916 and 1931. Originally, the Organ of the Workers’ Committees Scotland, it later became the organ of the National Workers Committees. The Worker was one of the first papers to be suppressed by the British government during World War I. The editor and the president of the Committee (John Muir and William Gallacher) were jailed for a year under the Defence of the Realm Act 1914 for an article in the paper criticizing the First World War. By 1920 it had definitely adopted a communist viewpoint.
Workers' Committees in Scotland were in the vanguard of industrial militancy and radicalism during World War I, particularly in the "Red" Clydeside area with its Clyde Workers' Committee (CWC). The leader of the CWC was William Gallacher, who, with other militants like JR Campbell, went on to become prominent leaders in the Communist Party of Great Britain.
Here we present a number of issues of The Worker for the years 1920-1921.
Background Materials
Clyde Workers Committee: To All Clyde Workers
Activities of the Scottish Workers Committees [probably JR Campbell]
1920
Number 64, February 7, 1920
Number 65, February 14, 1920
Number 67, March 6, 1920
Number 68, March 13, 1920
Number 69, March 20, 1920
Number 71, April 3, 1920
Number 72, April 10, 1920
Number 84, July 3, 1920
Number 88, July 31, 1920
Number 91, August 21, 1920
Number 93, September 3, 1920
Number 94, September 11, 1920
Number 95, September 18, 1920
1921
Number 112, January 15, 1921
Number 114, January 29, 1921
Number 120, March 12, 1921
Number 124, April 9, 1921
Number 125, April 16, 1921
Number 131, May 28, 1921
Number 134, June 18, 1921
Number 135, June 25, 1921