J. B. McLachlan Fills Out a Questionnaire, 1931
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7327728 |
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| Authors | David Frank (0000-0003-3503-5310), David A Frank (0000-0003-0963-2787, University of New Brunswick, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 88 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-30 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Labour / Le Travail (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0700-3862 • E-ISSN: 1911-4842 |
| Publisher | Athabasca University Press (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.52975/llt.2021v88.0008 |
| OpenAlex | W3216054195 |
| Language | FR |
In Moscow, at the offices of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, it is 23 December 1931.A veteran leader of the coal miners in Nova Scotia, J. B. McLachlan, is filling out a questionnaire.The five typed pages are addressed to "Leading Workers of the Parties and International Organisations."They ask about background, social position, political experience, and public activity.At this time, McLachlan is in his early 60s, a "grand old man" of the radical left in Canada.He is completing his only trip to the "land of socialism," a sympathetic visitor more than prepared to be impressed by what he came to see. 1 But here our interest is not in Soviet conditions or the politics of the Comintern but in what McLachlan has to say about his own history.With his fountain pen, he fills in short answers, and mostly he repeats familiar information.For the biographer, there is confirmation on various points
| Highly cited | No |
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