Subjects of 2.10 include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): anti-war meetings in Glasgow during First World War, including speeches by Russian political refugee Peter Petrov (1-2); Petrov’s internment and later political activities (3-4); suppression of socialist journals and arrest of socialist leaders in 1916 (4); John Maclean’s advocacy of revolution after Russian Revolution (5); McShane being beaten up by a pro-war crowd around 1916 (6-7); unsuccessful attempt to promote pro-peace petition among Glasgow industrial workers (8); sales of the British Socialist Party paper, ‘The Call’ (8-9); pacifism of the ‘Socialist Leader’, the ‘Weekly Herald’ and the ‘Socialist’ (9); effectiveness of William Gallacher as an industrial organiser (10); separation between anti-war and industrial campaigning (10-11); division in the Socialist Labour Party over the Easter Rising of 1916 (11-12); involvement of British Socialist Party members in supply of arms to Irish nationalists around 1919 (12-13); sales of Clyde Workers Committee paper ‘The Worker’, 1916-1920 (14); attempt by John Maclean to form Scottish communist party (15); candidacy of McShane and Maclean in November 1921 in town council elections in Kingston and Kinning Park wards (15-17); sale and distribution of socialist pamphlets and leaflets (17-18).
Subjects of 2.11 include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): distribution of leaflet on Lord Mayor of Cork’s death after a hunger strike, 1920 (1); sales of ‘The Call’, ‘The Worker’ and ‘The Communist’ in factories (1); spreading propaganda by chalking the streets (2).
Plays too fast in places, especially on side 2.
Brand: Scotch C90.