Subjects include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): hunger march in 1936 from Scotland to London (2); expulsion from Communist Party of Sid Elias, chairman of the National Unemployed Workers Movement, for offering to work for the Economic League (2); disagreements on organisation between the CP and the NUWM (3-4); Labour Party opposition to hunger marches in 1930 and their support in 1936 (4-5); marches to Edinburgh from Glasgow and elsewhere, 1922-1933 (5-7); marchers led by McShane in 1933 sleeping and eating meals on Princes Street in Edinburgh in defiance of the police and having their fares home paid by the corporation (7-9); marches to London in 1934 and 1936, including incidents on the latter (10-14).
14 pages
Open
Recording at 842/34.
English
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