Subjects 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).
29 pages
Open
Recording at 842/7.
English
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