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Subjects include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): John Wheatley’s work on housing (B3, B14-B15) and hardship suffered by miners (B5-B6); condemnation of socialism in 1891 papal encyclical ‘Rerum novarum’ and later catholic statements (B6-B7); speech on socialism by John Maclean to Catholic Truth Society in 1912 and subsequent debate (B8-B10); hostile reaction of catholic press to support of Labour candidates in 1906 general election by United Irish League in Gorbals, in defiance of League policy of support for Liberals, and to John Wheatley’s assertion of the compatibility of Catholicism with socialism (B11-B12); Wheatley’s opposition to the First World War and support for the Clyde workers’ committee (B15-B16); John Maclean’s strong opposition to Catholicism and John Wheatley (B18, B20); awareness of McShane and colleagues of foreign socialist writers in period before 1917 (B25-B26); their rejection of the Fabianism of Ramsay Macdonald and Kier Hardy (B28); dullness of ‘Labour leader’ (B28); attractive variety of content in ‘Forward’ (B28-B29); high quality of John Maclean’s lectures on subjects such as economics (B29-B30); wide range of socialist speakers at meetings in Glasgow (B30-B31); increased interest in organising unions on an industrial basis from around 1910 (B32-B33).

35 pages (no page 27)

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Recording at 842/1

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