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Subjects include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): proliferation of separate craft unions in engineering and other sectors (F1-F2); unionisation of general labourers employed by local councils (F4-F5); organising of unskilled dock workers by Ben Tillett and Tom Mann (F5); McShane’s belief in “racketeering” by the Transport and General Workers’ Union and the General and Municipal Workers’ union in the selection of Labour parliamentary candidates (F7-F8); organisation of Scottish dockers (F8-F11); decline in size of dock labour force in Glasgow (F10); hiring of casual labour in Glasgow docks by stevedores, who regarded themselves as employers (F11-F13); blacklegging by dockers during strikes (F14); strike around 1910 of women employed at mill owned by English Sewing Cotton Company (F15-F17); organising of unskilled workers by George Kerr (F18-F20); migrant workers from the highlands (F20-F22); union organisation of Scottish miners (F23-F25); emphasis by Kier Hardy and miners’ leaders on representation of labour more than on representation of socialism (F25-F28); organisation by John Maclean of economics classes for Lanarkshire miners (F29); political position of John Wheatley (F30-F32); questioning by some Irish Catholics of view that Liberals should always be supported as long as they promised Irish Home Rule (F32); influence of Irish Land League’s ideas (F32-F33); rise in support for Labour among Irish Catholics as a reaction to poverty and Liberal abandonment of Home Rule promise in 1906 (F34-F35); limited impact of Taff Vale judgement (F35); Independent Labour Party’s pre-occupation with gaining labour representation on elected bodies (F36); Liberals responding to apparent threat of Labour by reversing Taff Vale judgement and introducing taxation of land values (F37).

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Recording at 842/2.

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