Subjects include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): the Socialist Labour Party, including their strong adherence to Marxist ideas, their hostility to other socialist groups, their approach to industrial action and their printing of Daniel de Leon’s writings (H1-H4, H27-H28); John McIntyre, veteran social democrat, including his arrest in 1908 at a demonstration by the unemployed, his low opinion of socialist leaders Henry Hyndman, Harry Quelch and John Battersby (H4-H8); Tom Anderson, founder of the Proletarian Sunday Schools (H8-H10); ‘The rise and fall of the Right Honourable’, book by Joe Burgess attacking John Burns (H10-H12); various members of the Social Democratic Federation and the early British Socialist Party in Glasgow (H15-H17); representation of various trades in the BSP (H17-H19); enthusiastic and colourful nature of early socialist movement, as shown in May Day celebrations on Glasgow Green, at which a wide range of organisations were represented (H19-H22).
29 pages
Open
Recording at 842/3.
English
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