Subjects include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): John Maclean, including his appearance and speaking style (1-2), his criticism of the party’s efforts on his behalf during his imprisonment for sedition (2), his opposition to the Glasgow unemployed campaign becoming part of the national movement (2); development of working-class housing in Glasgow before, during and after the First World War (3-5); lack of active shop stewards movement before First World War (5); procedure at Amalgamated Society of Engineers branches (10-12); failure of the Independent Labour Party to oppose the First World War until the introduction of conscription in 1916 (12-13); shop stewards’ resistance to dilution of labour during the war (14); influence of socialist shop stewards (15); conscious respectability of engineering workers (15); rarity of overtime in the engineering industry (16); McShane’s work as shop steward at a factory in Wales, including unsuccessful strike for reinstatement of his predecessor in 1914 (17-19); tendency for socialists to be selected first for redundancy in Scottish engineering firms (19); support for strong socialist factory organisation among ILP members in Wales (20).
20 pages
Open
Recording at 842/22.
English
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