Smith Jock

September 20, 2008 admin S 0

Jock Smith

Jock Smith worked for the Clydebank local education authority and was active in the Transport and General Workers Union throughout his working life.
 
He worked for the Communist Party full-time for a period and later became a long-standing Communist councillor in Clydebank.
 
He played a major role in tenants’ and pensioners’ movements at a local and national level and died aged 70 in 1985.
 
Source: Morning Star November 23rd 1985

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