Subjects of 1.32 include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): exaggerated reputation of Glasgow MP Jimmy Mackeson (J1-J2); communist activists in railway workshops and other workplaces (J2-J4); difficulties of catholics in gaining regular employment in Glasgow and anti-catholicism among engineering workers there (J6-J8); role of the Independent Labour Party ‘Forward’ in lessening anti-catholicism and comparative lack of this sentiment in the 1930s (J8); Orangemen, Freemasons and friendly societies in Glasgow (J9-J13); beliefs of working-class conservative and liberals, for instance on free trade (J13-J15); liberals’ support for extension of the franchise and parliamentary action (J15); custom of tossing a brick to decide whether to resume work after a holiday (J15-J17); sleeping whilst working night-shifts on a battleship at Fairfield shipyard in 1912, and overtime rate for working on government contracts (J18-second J17); various engineering jobs done by McShane before, during and after the First World War (second J18-J23).
Subjects of 1.33 include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): expulsion of Hugh McDermott from the communist party and his reinstatement around 1937-1938 (I1=I3); communist party endorsement of a Scottish parliament (I3-I5); meeting after First World War of Scottish convention in favour of devolution (I5-I7); varying attitudes of communists and the Labour Party to the issue (I7-I9); development of the Scottish Labour Party and Independent Labour Party from late nineteenth century onwards (I11-I13); middle-class leadership of Parliamentary Labour Party (I14); influence of religion and free thought on Scottish socialism (I15-I16); strong support in British labour movement for Dublin strike of 1913 (I17-I18); Scottish working-class Liberals (I22-I25); William Gallacher’s role as communist party official (I26-I27).
Brand: BASF C90.