Successor | Scottish Workers' Committee |
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Formation | October 1915 |
Founded at | Glasgow |
Dissolved | 1916 |
Membership | 200 – 300 |
Chairman | William Gallacher |
Treasurer | David Kirkwood |
Formerly called | Central Labour Withholding Committee |
The Clyde Workers Committee was formed to campaign against the Munitions Act. It was originally called the Labour Withholding Committee.[1] The leader of the CWC was Willie Gallacher, who was jailed under the Defence of the Realm Act 1914 together with John Muir for an article in the CWC journal The Worker criticising the First World War.