1915 Glasgow rent strikes

Housing protests in Glasgow, Scotland January 2026 January 2026 Red Clydeside Rent strikes 325px Strike demonstration outside a house in Govan, Glasgow 1915 3 – 1915 11 Glasgow, Scotland Rent increases Passage of rent control Glasgow Women's Housing Association Landlords 20,000 – 25,000 households The 1915 Glasgow rent strikes were a series of mobilisations by tenants in Glasgow, Scotland, opposing rent increases by landlords, who raised rents following a housing shortage.Glaswegian Women Campaign for Rent Control, Scotland, 1915 https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/glaswegian-women-campaign-rent-control-scotland-1915 2023-11-05 Global Nonviolent Action Database Swarthmore College Background In February 1915 Glasgow landlords announced that all rents would be increased by 25%. In response meetings were held by tenants across the city.2020-09-03 Our Housing Heritage: How Glasgow tenants ‘fought the huns at home’ during World War One https://www.scottishhousingnews.com/articles/our-housing-heritage-how-glasgow-tenants-fought-the-huns-at-home-during-world-war-one 2023-11-05 Scottish Housing News en That same month the Glasgow Women's Housing Association had its first meeting to resist rent increases.The rent strikes - Domestic impact of World War One - society and culture https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/ztx66sg/revision/4 2023-11-05 BBC Bitesize In Govan in March 1915, a landlord attempted to evict a woman in response to her rent debt of £1 (UK 1 1915 eq £). In response, hundreds of angry neighbours led by John Wheatley, a socialist politician and member of the Independent Labour Party (ILP), blocked the way into her apartment, which prevented the evictors from carrying out the eviction. 2015-06-12 1915 Glasgow Rent Strike: how workers fought and won over housing https://www.rs21.org.uk/2015/06/12/1915-glasgow-rent-strike-how-workers-fought-and-won-over-housing/ 2023-11-05 rs21 en-GB Strike The rent strikes formally began in September 1915 by the Glasgow Women's Housing Association. However many tenants were already withholding sections of rent before then, paying only the normal amount before the increase, refusing to comply with the rent raise.270x270px|thumb|A pro-strike demonstration. Mary Barbour, also a member of the ILP, led much of the rent strikes. The peak of the strikes was in November 1915, when around 20,000 families were participating. One notable victory for tenants occurred after the city attempted to charge 49 tenants for striking on 17 November. In response to the charges striking residents gathered outside the courthouse and lead a massive demonstration outside for the entire day which led the city to drop all charges. Soon after on 25 November, the Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest (War Restrictions) Act 1915 was introduced and passed by parliament on 27 November.Sommerlad Joe 2021-05-14 A short history of community action in Glasgow, from the Rent Strike of 1915 to Scottish independence https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/glasgow-community-action-rent-strike-b1847713.html 2023-11-05 The Independent en It froze rent increases at 1914 levels unless landlords could prove improvements were made to the property.1914-16 The Public General Acts Passed in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of King George the Fifth; Being the Fifth Session of the Thirtieth Parliament of the United Kingdom and Ireland. Eyre & Spottiswoode 1916 345–351 The law however was consistently weakened after 1915. See also South Govan Women's Housing Association Red Clydeside § Rent strikes 1907 New York City Rent Strike References Category:Glasgow Category:Rent strikes Category:1915 labor disputes and strikes Category:1915 in Scotland Category:1910s in Glasgow Category:Protests in Scotland Category:Housing in Scotland