Subjects include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): riots of hunger marchers in London in 1932 and abortive attempt to present a million-signature petition to parliament and subsequent imprisonment of Wal Hannington and Sid Elias, chairman of the National Unemployed Workers Movement (2-7); negotiating cheap rail fares for the marchers’ journeys home (7-8); McShane’s difficulties with accommodation of the Dundee contingent during the march (8-9); generally good discipline on the marches to London (10); effective system for providing food and drink to the marchers (11-12); daily mileages (12); march over Shap Fell (12-13); being refused accommodation in Auchinleck on the 1932 march (13-14); subsequent stops on the route (14-15).
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Recording at 842/33.
English
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