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Glasgow Women's Housing Association
Glasgow Women's Housing Association (GWHA) was established in 1914 by the Independent Labour Party Housing Committee and the Women's Labour League in reaction to the increasing rent prices and overcrowding exacerbated by the advent of the First World War. They campaigned for subsidised housing and criticised profiteering by landlords and the lack of municipal housing provision due to speculative urban development. The GWHA were instrumental in the organisation of the Glasgow Rent Strike 1915. Mary B. Laird chaired the first meeting in February 1915 and other key figures included Mary Barbour, Agnes Dollan, Helen Crawfurd, and Jessie Ferguson.

The GWHA were actively involved in protests during the Red Clydeside and thus contributed to the passing of the Housing and Town Planning Act of 1919 which gives the state responsibility to provide housing to the public. The GWHA had 3000 members by the end of 1915, an example of their banners read:

Our Husbands Sons and Brothers are Fighting the Prussians of Germany.

We are fighting the Prussians of Partick.

Only Alternative: Muncipal Housing.

Banner at the Great March in St. Enoch's Square, Glasgow 7th Oct, 1915