Subjects include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): strike in Smiths factory in Wales June-July 1914 to get McShane’s predecessor as shop steward reinstated (1-2, 4-5); influence of Gustave Herve’s anti-militarist ‘My country, right or wrong’ (3, 13); belief that the First World War would be short when it broke out (9-10, 11-12); anti-Tsarist sentiment in Britain (10-11); joining the Royal Engineers in September 1914 to carry out socialist propaganda work (14-15); McShane and other Royal Engineers stationed in Dorset refusing to be inoculated (thereby delaying their dispatch to France) as a protest against allowances not being paid to their wives (20-22).
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Recording at 842/23.
English
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