Subjects include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): formation and work of the Scottish Trades Union Congress (1-2); reduction in its power caused by growth of amalgamated unions mainly based in London (3); representation of communists on its general council (4); its emphasis on organising workers in order to raise wages (4-5); its limited support for McShane's campaigns for the unemployed in the 1920s and 1930s (5-6); unsuccessful attempt to dissuade George Middleton from leaving the Communist Party in order to become STUC secretary in 1948 (6-8); current secretary and assistant secretary Jimmy Jack and Jimmy Mullen (8-9); need to end Communist Party's current monopoly on sending delegates from Glasgow to the STUC (10-11); STUC's limited practical influence (13-14); its vague attitude to Upper Clyde Shipbuilders work-in (15).