Subjects include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): McShane’s work for the Communist Party whilst working in Mansfield after leaving Glasgow in 1923, including arguing with Liberals, arranging a visit by Tom Mann and helping Arthur Cooke to be elected general secretary of the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain (1-4); short spells living in St Mary Cray in Kent and Hounslow in Middlesex, followed by move to Leicester (4-5); ineffective communist party in Leicester and impact of General Strike there (5-7); radical tradition in Leicester (7); getting a job building mechanical shovels for the Yukon Consolidated Gold Corporation (7); giving a speech for the Stalinist communist party in Vancouver, and high unemployment there (9); working in Yukon, including danger from bears, ditch-digging and dredging operations to serve gold mines, move to Bear Creek to mend dredgers, good living conditions and high wages there, good food, rail journey from Vancouver, via Skagway in Alaska and Dead Man’s Gulch to White Horse, horse sleigh journey from there to Dawson City (9-12); return to Vancouver and visit to Scottish communist Alan Campbell in prison there for allegedly leading a mutiny at sea (13-14).
13 pages (no page 8)
Open
Recording at 842/13.
English
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