When the Clyde Ran Red by Maggie Craig

Author:Maggie Craig [Maggie Craig]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing
Published: 2011-09-20T04:00:00+00:00

Gallacher and Muir appeared in court the following morning to hear the charge against them:

Having on or about January 29th at 50 Renfrew Street or elsewhere in Glasgow attempted to cause mutiny, sedition or disaffection among the civilian population, and to impede, delay and restrict the production of war material by producing, printing, publishing and circulating among workers in and around Glasgow engaged on war materials, a newspaper entitled The Worker.

Rosslyn Mitchell got them released on bail but it was only a temporary reprieve. When their case came to trial, Muir got a year, Gallacher six months and the printer three. According to Davie Kirkwood, at least one innocent man was locked up. He told the story in My Life of Revolt, claiming that Johnny Muir was not the author of ‘Should the Workers Arm?’:

John Muir was charged with having written the article. He did not write it nor did either of the other two arrested men. The man who wrote the article was married and had a family of five children. John Muir was unmarried. He accepted the responsibility. There were only three persons who knew the author – John Wheatley, Rosslyn Mitchell, and myself. It was suggested that Muir should reveal the secret. He refused, saying: ‘Some one [sic] is going to jail for this because the Military has read it the wrong way. If . . . . . goes, there will be seven sufferers. If I go, there is only one so I am going.’

Many years later, John Muir was elected to Parliament and became Under-Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions. To the day of his death he never by word or suggestion went back on his word, nor did the others who knew his secret.

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