Subjects include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): dispute about accommodation in Middleton-on-Tees on 1936 hunger march from Scotland to London (1); organisation and leadership of this and other marches in the 1930s (1-5); Wal Hannington leading song singing with Scottish and Welsh contingents (5-6); flute bands and singing in the former (6-7); fighting of benefit and rent cases by National Unemployed Workers Movement branches in Glasgow (7-8); formation in 1936 of a march council including prominent Labour politicians and its agreement that the NUWM should continue unemployment agitation using funds generated by the march (8-9); subsequent failed attempt to form unified unemployment campaign between the NUWM and the TUC (9-11); liquidation of NUWM on day before outbreak of Second World War (10); dealings of the NUWM with the corporation and trades council in Glasgow (11-12); limited influence of Communist Party on NUWM, despite most NUWM leaders being party members (12-13); McShane’s rejection of the idolisation of Stalin (14).
14 pages
Open
Recording at 842/34.
English
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