Subjects include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): demonstration of the unemployed in Glasgow in 1930 during which McShane was fined for a breach of the peace (M2-M4); similar demonstrations organised by McShane and John Maclean in the early 1920s (M4-M5); revival of the unemployed campaign in the 1930s aimed at securing higher benefits, involving the election of organising committees in several parts of Scotland (M6-M7); intensification of the campaign after the introduction of the means test in 1931 (M8); involvement of communists on local committees (M9); various members of the national executive committee of the National Unemployed Workers’ Movement (M9-M10); funding and organisation of march to London (M10-M11); demonstrations in London, including attempt to present a million-signature petition, involving fights with the police (M12-M13); organising demonstrations and meetings in Dundee and elsewhere in defiance of police bans (M13-M16); police attempts to stop hunger march from Glasgow to Edinburgh in 1933 (M16-M18).
18 pages
Open
Recording at 842/14.
English
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