Happy Birthday!

Scotland's great labour leader,

John Maclean

was born

14 August 1879
(died St Andrews Day, 11/30/1923)

          Tak tent when he's speakin', for they'll mind whit he said here
          In Glasgie, oor city -- an' the haill warld beside.
          Och hey, lad, the scarlet's bonnie: here's tae ye, Hielan' Shony!
          Oor John Maclean has come hame tae the Clyde.
          Oor John Maclean has come hame tae the Clyde.
  
                  "The John Maclean March," Hamish Henderson

Maclean's triumphant return to Glasgow from Peterhead Jail was 3 December 1918. See The biography by James D. Young, John Maclean: Clydeside Socialist (Clydeside Press.)

[thanx to Jack Campin]

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