Subjects include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): Independent Labour Party local electoral activity in Glasgow before First World War (1-4, 6-7); Labour policy of municipalising local services (5); ILP parliamentary candidates from 1895 onwards (7-8); McShane’s dislike of ‘Labour leader’, the official ILP organ (10-11, 13); his attempt to understand the materialist conception of history expressed in the Socialist Labour Party’s ‘The Socialist’, the liveliness of ‘Forward’ and ‘The Clarion’ and the simplistic Marxism of ‘Justice’ (11-14); wide range of socialist speakers in Glasgow before First World War (12); unsuccessful apprentices’ strike over cut in piece-rates at Howdens engineering works, c.1911 (18-22); skilled use of tools required when working at “Better Builders” crane works (25-26); various other engineering jobs done by McShane before First World War (26-27).
29 pages (2 page 26s)
Open
Recording at 842/21.
English
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