Subjects include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): proceedings against John Maclean and other opponents of the war (P2); McShane’s continued involvement in anti-war activity (P3-P4); reporting of Zimmerwald Manifesto in 1915 (P4-P5); socialists’ hope that war-weariness would develop (P5); prostitution and bad housing conditions in Glasgow (P5-P6); strengthening of anti-war movement in 1916-1917 after earlier expectations of a short war proved unfounded (P6-P7); opposition to conscription and secret diplomacy (P8-P9); focus of shop stewards more on raising wages and opposing dilution of labour than on opposing the war (P10-P12); division among socialists on the Easter Rising of 1916 (P12-P13); inadequate unemployment insurance benefits and provision of relief work for the unemployed (P16-P18); women’s preference for factory work over domestic service in First World War (P22); trade union organisation of women workers (P23); involvement of women in the socialist movement (P24-P25); organisation of Glasgow rent strike (P25-P28).
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Recording at 842/4.
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