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Accessions administration: KV 2
Catalogue reference: PRO 57/15934
Date: 2000 Jan 1 - 2003 Dec 31
Accessions administration: KV 2
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Harry McSHANE: British. A shipyard engineer who was a leading member of the 'Red...
Catalogue reference: KV 2/3589
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This record is about the Harry McSHANE: British. A shipyard engineer who was a leading member of the 'Red... dating from 1941 Jan 09 - 1950 Jun 14 in the series The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- KV 2/3589
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1941 Jan 09 - 1950 Jun 14
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Description (What the record is about)
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Harry McSHANE: British. A shipyard engineer who was a leading member of the 'Red Clyde' movement. McShane was particularly active in the National Unemployed Workers Movement during the 1920s and 1930s, organising a number of the hunger marches and demonstrations associated with them. He joined the Communist Party in 1922 and held numerous offices (including selection as a Parliamentary candidate and acting as a correspondent for the 'Daily Worker') from 1932 until he resigned from the Party in 1952 following criticism for incompetence and a personality clash with another leading Glasgow communist. He attempted to form a new 'Anti-Stalinist' party, in due course being subsumed into the UK Trotskyists, where he remained until his death in 1988
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- PF 40249 VOL 2
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- Public Record(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Retained Until 2011
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11692075/
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The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files
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