In 1890, he moved to Bradford, working as an organiser for the National Union of Gasworkers and General Labourers, and was active in the Manningham Mills strike.
After the strike, he was a founder member of the Bradford Labour Union, and also joined the Fabian Society.
While on the council, he championed free school meals, and the rights of unemployed people.
He published a local socialist newspaper, the Bradford Vanguard, which he used to vociferously criticise World War I.
[1] By 1920, Glyde was in poor health, and he retired from political activity, dying three years later.