Subjects of 2.15 include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): campaign for the unemployed in Glasgow in the early 1920s organised by McShane and John Maclean, including a rowdy demonstration against a reception for the Prince of Wales and subsequent controversy over whether a deputation of unemployed should have met him (1-6); McShane’s trial in 1922 for seditious speech at a demonstration against an eviction (7-8); his opposition to the adulation of Stalin (10); communist party official George Middleton, who left the party in 1948 on becoming secretary of Scottish TUC (10-14).
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