ABSTRACT
The scene of the first important war-time wage dispute was the stage for the even greater struggle over dilution. Lacking the cohesiveness of the miners, and split into a number of unions, the Clyde workers were no less restless than the miners. The Clyde workers had more provocation, their leaders were more dramatic, but their efforts were less productive of result. Yet the Clyde disturbances do more than merely emphasize this difference. Just as the glare of the South Wales blaze bares the war-time labor difficulties in the coal fields, so is the whole picture of the labor difficulties in the munitions industries reflected in the glow cast by the seething Clyde Valley. The spark of war-time difficulties ignited an area in which social conditions antedating the war, but aggravated by it, furnished ready kindling.
