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    1915 Glasgow rent strikes were a series of tenant mobilizations by Glasgow, Scotland tenants opposing rent increases by landlords, who raised rents following...
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  • 1915, the rent strikers were supported by mass demonstrations and by August, the rent strikers had found widespread support in Glasgow. Rent strikes spread...
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    that were experiencing rent increases. The Glasgow Women's Housing Association was led by these women and during rent strikes, women would forcibly prevent...
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  • Mary Burns Laird (category People associated with Glasgow)
    associated with the Red Clydeside movement, and supported the Glasgow Rent Strikes of 1915 alongside Mary Barbour, Agnes Dollan, Mary Jeff and Helen Crawfurd...
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    Mary Barbour (category Women councillors in Glasgow)
    leading the South Govan Women's Housing Association during the Glasgow rent strikes of 1915, when she actively organised tenant committees and eviction resistance...
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  • Glasgow Rent Strike of 1915. and were described as a 'major pre-war organisational effort in support of the strikes'. As a result of the rent strikes...
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    Agnes Dollan (category Women councillors in Glasgow)
    and political activist. She was a leading campaigner during the Glasgow Rent Strikes, and a founding organiser of the Women's Peace Crusade. In 1919,...
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    Manuel (1983). "The Industrial City and the Working-Class: The Glasgow Rent Strike of 1915". The City and The Grassroots. London: Edward Arnold. p. 27....
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  • introduced by the Rents and Mortgage Interest Restriction Act 1915 (5 & 6 Geo. 5. c. 97), largely as a consequence of rent strikes in Glasgow. Marchant v Charters...
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  • South Govan Women's Housing Association (category Organisations based in Glasgow)
    in 1915 under the leadership by Mary Barbour in Govan on the south side of Glasgow in Scotland. The Glasgow Rent strikes began in response to rent increases...
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