Subjects of 2.5 include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): John Maclean’s teaching activities and the educational value of his speeches on contemporary issues (1-3); campaigns by socialist members of Govan and Glasgow school boards (3-4); dismissal of Maclean from his teaching post following his imprisonment for organising an anti-war meeting in September 1915 (4-5); formation of Scottish Labour College in 1918 (5); current need for theoretical education for workers like that provided by Maclean (6); activities of socialist teachers (6-7); emphasis by Maclean on his working-class background (8); campaigning by William Martin Haddell on the Glasgow School Board for better school meals (8-9); contribution of miners to Glasgow labour movement and Maclean’s close association with them (9-12); Maclean’s leaflet of 1920 calling for a Scottish communist republic (12-13); Maclean’s differences with British communist party leaders (14); his formation of the Scottish Workers Republican Party (15-16).
Subjects of 2.6 include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): John Maclean, including his appearance and speaking style (1-2), his criticism of the party’s efforts on his behalf during his imprisonment for sedition (2), his opposition to the Glasgow unemployed campaign becoming part of the national movement (2); development of working-class housing in Glasgow before, during and after the First World War (3-5); lack of active shop stewards movement before First World War (5); procedure at Amalgamated Society of Engineers branches (10-12); failure of the Independent Labour Party to oppose the First World War until the introduction of conscription in 1916 (12-13); shop stewards’ resistance to dilution of labour during the war (14); influence of socialist shop stewards (15); conscious respectability of engineering workers (15); rarity of overtime in the engineering industry (16); McShane’s work as shop steward at a factory in Wales, including unsuccessful strike for reinstatement of his predecessor in 1914 (17-19); tendency for socialists to be selected first for redundancy in Scottish engineering firms (19); support for strong socialist factory organisation among ILP members in Wales (20).
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