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98 SAOTHAR 13A1I1Ula1 (London, 1895). For an account of John Murdoch's autobiography, see James D. Young, 'JohnMurdoch', op.cit.32. 'Although Dr. CharlesCameron appeared on the same platfonn as John Ferguson, R. Chisholm Robertson,William Small, J. Shaw Maxwell, Michael Davitt, Bruce Glasier and J.G. Weir and advocated resistanceagainst the ongoing Clearances, he played a double-game. In a private letter to J. McLaren, the Lord Advocate,he criticised the Glasgow branch of the Irish League for encouraging the resistance of 'the Valtos tenantry'.Moreover, he stressed the need to wam 'the tenantry against the danger and folly of such resistance'. CharlesCameron to the Rt.Hon. J. McLaren, MP, 4 July, 188l. Lord Advocate's Papers, Box 2, Bundle 2. ScottishRecords Office, Edinburgh.33. Wood, op.cit., p.25.34. Glasgow Observer, 29 August, 1885.35. ibid., 24 October and 10 October, 1885.36. 'R. Chisholm Robertson', The Miner, January, 1885.37. Glasgow Observer, 12 December, 1885.38. ibid., 12 October, 1895 and 4 January, 1896.39. 'The Late William Small', Scottish Co-operator. 6 February, 1903: Glasgow Observer. 31 January, 1903;Interview with Harry McShane, 27 March, 1986.40. 'Mr. Chisholm Robertson', Glasgow Observer. 22 March, 1930; 'Mr. R. Chisholm Robertson', GlasgowHerald. 14 March, 1930.41. Interview with Bob Selkirk, the veteran communist leader, 4 April, 1972.42. Ralph Chaplin, Wobbly. (Chicago, 1948), p. 105; Letterfrom Henry Kuhn to Daniel MacDonald, 15 October,1905, Archives of the Socialist Labour Party, MSS. 399, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.For a new assessment of De Leonism, see my forthcoming article, 'H.M. Hyndman and Daniel De Leon: TheTwo Souls of Socialism', Labor History.43. George Monies,l ournal of the Scottish Labour History Society, May, 1969, p. 26. By 1919 Maclean was lesscritical of the priests in Ireland. See John Maclean, 'Ireland for Marxism', The Worker. 4 October, 1919.41. Letter from Nan Milton, 24 January, 1981.45. John Maclean, 'Gleanings from the Scrap Book of a Navvy' , Forward. 18 April. 1911 and Harry McShane andJoan Smith, No Mean Fighter. (London, 1978), p. 56.46. Tom Bell, Pioneering Days. (London, 1941), p. 51.47. Interview with Harry McShane, 24 March, 1981.48. For example, Anonymous report in the Appeal to Reason. 22 June, 1912.49. R. Samuel, 'Sources of Marxist History', New Left Review. No. 120, 1980; and William Regan to CarlThompson, 1 July, 1914. American Socialist Party Archives, Duke University, North Carolina.50. David Lowe, Souvenirs of Scottish Labour. (Glli!'gow, 1919), p. 61.51. Owen Dudley Edwards,lames Connolly: Mind of an Activist. (Dublin, 1971), p. 18.52. Bob Selkirk, The Life of a Worker (Dundee, 1967) and interview with Bob Selkirk, 3 April, 1972.53. Selkirk, op.cit .• p. 12 and Ian MacDougall (ed.), Militant Miners. (Edinburgh, 1981), p. 18.54. Dunfermline Journal. 16 April and 23 April, 1921.55. Interview with Harry McShane, 24 March, 1986.56. A. Currie to Fenner Brockway, 17 January, 1924, Francis Johnson MSS, British Library of Political and. Economic Science, London.57. Joan Smith, 'Labour Traditions in Glasgow and Liverpool', History Workshop. No.l7. 1984, p. 33 and PatrickRenshaw, The Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World. (London, 1967), p. 279. For a more traditionalview of the anti-progressive role of the Irish in Scottish politics, see David Howell, British Workers and theIndependent Labour Party. (Manchester, 1983), p. 172.