Subjects of 2.21 include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): campaigns to get parish councils to pay higher benefits (1-4); his Communist Party activity whilst working in Leicester and Mansfield after leaving Glasgow in 1923 (9-15), including arranging speeches by Tom Mann and miners leader A J Cook (12-14); Mann’s speaking style (13); party meetings in Sheffield, Leeds and Derby (17); raising money for the ‘Daily Herald’ and for Dublin strikers in 1913 with a barrel organ (20-22).
Subjects of 2.22 include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): labour representation on Glasgow council from before the First World War onwards (1-3); the housing issue there (3-4); Independent Labour Party’s advocacy of municipalisation of public services (4-5); Labour Group’s prominence in campaign for better housing following 1919 Act (6); socialist and anti-First World War songs (10-13).
Brand: unbranded C90.