23.04.1998

John Maclean arrested

From The Call, paper of the British Socialist Party, April 18 1918

As we go to press, we hear of the arrest on Monday last of our comrade John Maclean. According to the reports it is alleged against Maclean that he carried on Bolshevik propaganda in Glasgow, Lanarkshire and Fifeshire by declaring that the workers should take charge of food stores, banks, post offices, newspaper offices, municipal buildings in Glasgow and ships on the Clyde, and that they should seize police offices and hold the lord provost and others as hostages for the safety of a revolutionary committee.

He is also alleged to have said that, unless the government followed the example of the Russian revolutionists, workmen should down tools, and the farmers who failed to produce food for workers should have their farms burned.

We understand that our comrade has been committed for trial, bail being refused.