Subjects 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).
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Recording at 842/7.
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