Sound recordings and transcriptions of interviews by Joan Smith of Harry McShane, Marxist activist... 2.25 "Unemployment in 30s" - Hunger March" (side 1); 2.26? "re-recorded at correct speed" (side 2), [c1972]
2.25 "Unemployment in 30s" - Hunger March" (side 1); 2.26? "re-recorded at correct speed" (side 2), [c1972]
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Subjects of 2.25 include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): McShane’s dealings and disagreements with Glasgow Communist Party officials and his resumption of campaigning for the unemployed after returning from Canada, including organising a demonstration and deputation to Glasgow Corporation to be held on 6 March 1930 (1-7); his good relationship with Wal Hannington (4-5); march to London in 1932 in protest against the household means test (8, 10); detention in Soviet Union of Len Wincott, leader of the Invergordon Mutiny (8-9); riot during demonstration led by McShane in Glasgow in 1931 (11-14).
Subjects of 2.26? include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): riots of hunger marchers in London in 1932 and abortive attempt to present a million-signature petition to parliament and subsequent imprisonment of Wal Hannington and Sid Elias, chairman of the National Unemployed Workers Movement (2-7); negotiating cheap rail fares for the marchers’ journeys home (7-8); McShane’s difficulties with accommodation of the Dundee contingent during the march (8-9); generally good discipline on the marches to London (10); effective system for providing food and drink to the marchers (11-12); daily mileages (12); march over Shap Fell (12-13); being refused accommodation in Auchinleck on the 1932 march (13-14); subsequent stops on the route (14-15).
Brand: BASF C90.