Sound recordings and transcriptions of interviews by Joan Smith of Harry McShane, Marxist activist... 2.16 "1922 Tramps Trust & joining the CP", [c1973]
2.16 "1922 Tramps Trust & joining the CP", [c1973]
842/93
[c1973]
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Subjects include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): McShane’s and John Maclean’s relationship with the Socialist Labour Party (1-3); campaigning for the unemployed with Maclean in the early 1920s (7-9); Tramps Trust’s support for miners’ lock-out (9-10); belief in 1920s and 1930s that it was possible to follow the example of the Russian Revolution (14); notable members of the Communist Part in Scotland when McShane joined in 1922 (16-17).
17 pages
Open
Recording at 842/29.
English
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