Subjects include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): authorities in Edinburgh agreeing in 1933 to McShane’s demand that they pay for hunger marchers to return home (continued from 842/70) (K1-K2); McShane’s differences with the Communist Party leadership in Scotland over the organisation of marches (K4-K6); riot at unemployed demonstration in Glasgow in 1932 (K9-K10); Glasgow branches of the National Unemployed Workers’ Movement and their flute bands (K11-K12); effective campaigning of the south-west district [of Scotland] committee of the NUWM (K14-K15); inadequate support for campaigning about unemployment in Scotland, both in the 1930s and at the time of the interview (K15-K16); campaigning for the unemployed with John Maclean in the early 1920s (K16-K18); Maclean’s opposition to the Scottish campaign becoming part of the NUWM and McShane becoming its sole leader in consequence (K18-K19); support for individual benefit claimants from local NUWM branches (K20-K23); speeches to mass meetings on unemployment (K24-K25); extent and nature of Communist Party membership in the 1920s and 1930s (K26).
26 pages
Open
Recording at 842/15.
English
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