Subjects include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): being persuaded to resume working on the Scottish edition of the ‘Daily Worker’ [in 1942] (1); his exposure of abuses by the Polish army in Scotland, in which he was assisted by Major Home, the press officer of the British Army’s Scottish Command (1-3, 6-8); strikes involving Trotskyists during the war (3-5); McShane’s campaign towards the end of the war for temporary housing to be built in Glasgow (5-6); booklet by Harry Pollitt advocating increased industrial production at the end of the war (8-9); consideration by the Communist Party before the war of the idea of a Scottish parliament, and the party’s involvement in the Scottish convention set up after the war (9); disaffiliation of Glasgow trades council for the Scottish TUC (10-11); McShane’s clash around 1952 with the Scottish party leadership arising from his opposition to the policy of advocating a peace pact between the Soviet Union, United States, China, France and Britain (10-15).
15 pages
Open
Recording at 842/36.
English
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