Subjects include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): speech by John Maclean in 1909 attacking the idea that the 1909 Budget was a socialist one (O1); disagreement with Maclean on voting tactics when a member of the joint committee of the provisional British Socialist Party and the Social Democratic Party (O2-O3); controversy within the BSP over Henry Hyndman’s and Robert Blatchford’s support for naval re-armament and the attitude in Glasgow to it (O4-O7); position of BSP members on opposition to war (O8-O8); varying views among socialists in the period 1910-1914 of importance of industrial and political organisation (O9-O11); leading resistance to being inoculated after joining the Royal Engineers in September 1914 (O14); not returning from leave (O15); engagement in anti-war activities after returning from Texas and Mexico (O16); continuing to argue for socialism during Royal Engineers training (O20-O21); support for war by most ILP councillors in Glasgow (O24); position on the war of Emanuel Shinwell (O24-25); opposition to war of ILP-supporting newspaper, ‘Forward’ (O25).
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Recording at 842/4.
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