"The riot at Glasgow harbour in January 1919 was the first in a wave of rioting around Britains ports in 1919. Violence was triggered by increased job competition in the merchant navy at the end of the war. Seamens unions fuelled animosity between competing groups as they sought to protect white British access to jobs by imposing a ‘colour’ bar on sailors from racialized ethnic minorities. Many of the seamen targeted in this way were British colonial subjects from Africa and the Caribbean." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR];
