Continuation of 842/78. Subjects include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): teachers at St Margaret’s Roman Catholic school in Glasgow attended by McShane, including effective but brutal headmaster (1-3); McShane asking a Catholic lecturer about Catholicism and socialism when a schoolboy (4-5); lectures on Glasgow Green around 1907 in favour of free thought and science by Emmanuel Shinwell and others (6-7); sale of free thought and anti-religious publications by Joseph McCabe, R G Ingersoll, Robert Blatchford and others (7-8, 14); support by Glasgow branch of United Irish League for voting Labour rather than Liberal, in defiance of national policy (8-9); support for Irish Home Rule in Glasgow (9); involvement of three future Lord Provosts of Glasgow in unemployment agitation in 1908 (10-11); local Independent Labour Party activists (12-14); child-naming ceremonies at Kingston Socialist Sunday School, at which Socialist songs were sung (13); belief of Independent Labour Party in using democratic structures, including electoral organisation of trade unionists (14-16).
17 pages
Open
Recording at 842/20.
English
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