Subjects of 1.13 include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): McShane challenging accusation that Clydeside strikers were receiving German money (O1:1, O1:9); enthusiastic and optimistic response to outbreak of First World War (O1:2); articles in ‘The Clarion’ by Julia Dawson defending women made pregnant by soldiers (O1:3); press allegations of drunkenness among striking workers (O1:3-O1:4); initial support for war by most Irish National Party members (O1:5); opposing a pro-war resolution at a British Workers League meeting (O1:5-O1:8); being attacked by an anti-socialist crowd after a BWL meeting (O1:9-O1:11); British socialists’ attitude to foreign socialist leaders and collapse of Second International (O1:12-O1:13); mistakes made in building up the Third International (O1:13-O1:15); split of Glasgow British Socialist Party from pro-war national party (O1:15-O1:16); absorption of Socialist Labour Party into shop stewards’ movement (O1:16); growth in Independent Labour Party membership arising from its pacifism (O1:16); support for war by national trade union leaders and most local ones (O1:17); shop stewards’ support for state control of industry as promoting socialism and McShane’s rejection of the idea (O1:18-O1:19); lack of solidarity by boilermakers with other workers (O1:19-O1:20); leading role taken by engineers in industrial action (O1:20-O1:21); strike for a 40-hour working week in Glasgow in 1919 (O1:21-O1:23).
Subjects of 1.14 include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): ‘Private Spud Tamson’, novel about service in the Highland Light Infantry (O2:1-O2:2); prostitution in Gallowgate area of Glasgow (O2:2); bad housing conditions (O2:2); disillusionment with the war (O2:3); impact of Easter Rising on people of Irish descent in Britain (O2:4); need in Glasgow after First World War for homes for smaller households (O2:6); victimisation of shop stewards after First World War (O2:8); organisation of Communist Party in Glasgow (O2:10); socialist newspapers and other publications in late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (O2:14-O2:16); socialist Sunday schools and choirs (O2:16); Independent Labour Party campaigning in work places (O2:17); Irish support for the Boers during the Boer War and for the Liberal Party (O2:18-O2:19); demonstration by unemployed in Glasgow in 1908 (O2:20); spectacular May Day celebrations around this time (O2:21-O23); assembly of mass picket from various workplaces during strike for a 40-hour working week in Glasgow in 1919 (O2:25-O2:26); discussions in Clyde Workers’ Committee, including on dilution of labour (O2:28-O2:29).
Muffled sound in places.
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