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RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1975 SUMMARY: [No content summaries or documentation available.];

The series consists of seven audio recordings made in August 1971 by Dr. A.Ross McCormack while interviewing William A. Pritchard who discussed the following topics.
Tape summaries:
T0225-0001: Various members of the Socialist Party of Canada (SPC) in B.C. including D.G. MacKenzie, J.H. Burroughs, E.T. Kingsley, Parme Pettipiece, Chris Stephenson, Jock Reid, Dick Johns, Moses Baritz, Macdonald, Joe Knight, George Armstrong, Arthur, Petit, Dick Rigg, Dixon, Ernest Burns. Selling the Clarion. Open-air meetings.
T0225:0002: Free-speech issue in Vancouver, 1912. Lecture tours, meeting places. Role of the Socialist Party of Canada in the B.C. labour movement. Post-war unrest, 1919. SPC influence in the B.C. Federation of Labour. SPC influence on the B.C. Federation of labour, SPC support, outside and inside B.C. Joe Knight and the Alberta party. Screening applicants to the SPC. Social events.
T0225:0003: The Socialist Party in Saskatchewan in the early 20th century. Importance of the Winnipeg local. The role of the Dominion Executive Committee. Funding for the party. Editor of the Clarion. Publications of the SPC. Comments on the concept of violent revolution. Question of compensation for capitalists after the revolution, and other debates within the party. Social events in party locals.
T0225:0004: Social events in Socialist party locals, continued. Picnics and smokers; dances in Alberta. Feelings of confidence and optimism in the party. Question of intellectual arrogance in the party. Decline of the SPC after World War II. The party and the One Big Union. More on the party and the O.B.U. Origins of the Marxist ideology of the SPC. The SPC and the Social Democratic Party of Canada. Conditions in the mines of B.C. at the turn of the century. Blacklisting after the miners' strike of 1912.
T0225:0005-0007: No content summaries are available for these three tapes. However, the subjects discussed include dealing with spies in the SPC; the 1917 Socialist campaign against conscription; and the funeral of Ginger Goodwin in Cumberland, B.C., at which Pritchard represented the Socialists.