Subjects include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): character, beliefs and political activity of William Gallacher (U-4 to U-5); advocacy by Johnny Muir of the Socialist Labour Party of workers seeking to gain as much as possible from war production during First World War (U-7 to U9); inspiring effect of the Russian Revolution (U-11 to U-12); increasing opposition to the war caused by conscription of single engineering and shipyard workers proposed in the Manpower Bill and increasing casualties (U-12 to U-13, U-15); arrest of John Maclean in 1918 for inciting revolution (U-15 to U-16); proxy candidacy of William Gallacher in place of the gaoled John Maclean in the Gorbals parliamentary election (U-17 to U-18); celebration of Maclean’s release (U-20); strike in favour of a 40-hour week (U-22 to U-23).
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Recording at 842/8.
English
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