Subjects include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): McShane’s attempt to organise a deputation to Glasgow Council on behalf of the unemployed following his return from Canada (1-6); welcome introduction in 1919 of a later start to engineers’ working day (6-9); influence of ‘The Fall’ and ‘The Weekly Worker’ newspapers (9-10); moves in 1919 towards the formation of a British communist party and close interest in the progress of the Russia Revolution (10-12); formation of Tramp Trust campaigning organisation in 1920 (15); political opportunism of Ramsay Macdonald (15-17); varying degrees of militancy in Glasgow, Leicester, Liverpool, Sheffield, Dundee, Aberdeen and Edinburgh (17-19); electoral success in Liverpool of Tom Mann’s syndicalism around 1918 (19); disagreements in Glasgow over the formation of a communist party (20-25).
25 pages
Open
Recording at 842/24.
English
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