Subjects include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): McShane’s objections to his treatment in prison whilst awaiting trial in May 1922 (1-2); his trial for alleged seditious speech during an anti-eviction protest (2); detective following him and John Maclean (2-3); events leading up to his trial and acquittal for alleged riot (6-7); campaign in 1931 against ban on meetings on Glasgow Green and at Nelson’s Monument in which radical clergymen called Tramp Preachers took part (8-11); debates on Glasgow Green on subjects such as Darwinism, secularism and Irish history during McShane’s schooldays (12); criticism by radical Liberals and Independent Labour Party members of the secret diplomacy which led to the First World War, as illustrated by the formation of the Union of Democratic Control (13-14); socialists’ disappointment at the failure of the German Democratic Party to avert the war (14); growth of pacifism with introduction of conscription in 1916 (14); disappointment at Robert Blatchford’s support for the war (14).
15 pages
Open
Recording at 842/30.
English
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