By Elizabeth McMeekin SHE is known as one of the most influential women in Glasgow in the early 20th century, became the first female Labour councillor in the city and tirelessly campaigned for the working classes. Friday 9 March 2012 Now Mary Barbour, who lived in Govan in the early 1900s, is to be celebrated…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-17304237 A project celebrating the life and work of Mary Barbour has been launched as part of International Women’s Day. Barbour was a housewife who roused thousands of women to protest at steep rent increases for living in Glasgow tenements during WWI. Mary Barbour’s leadership was responsible for a new rent restriction law. She also…