GLASGOW'S workers were ahead of the game when it came to calling a general strike.

While most history books will only refer to the General Strike of 1926, Glasgow got in on the game a full seven years early.

In a bid to cut unemployment among demobbed servicemen, the city's shipbuilders and engineers called for a cut in the working week, from 57 hours to 40.

This didn't go down well with the Government which, just two years after the Russian Revolution, feared a socialist uprising.

To that end, troops and police were brought in to guard industrial sites, as here at the Glasgow docks.

The strike ended in the 'Battle of George Square', when the red flag was raised and tanks brought in to quell the protests.