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[…] you know, in the ETU.  And I carried on the ETU for many, many, many years.  Until there was eventually a meeting of three meetings - ACT, NATKE(?) which had some of the projectionists and, of course, a whole lot of the floor staff and ACT.  ACT and NATKE had a meeting and there they[…]

[…]ing is done and that's it." So I said, "Fine. Anything to pay?" "No, no, no...just sign the form." "Right!" So that was that. So I became a member of NATKE. And then about three days later, another man came in and he said, "Have you joined the ACT?" And I said, "I don't know, what's that?" So he sai[…]

[…]f recruiting drive and they got a lot of the sound people into the ETU, some didn't join but some did. And then there was a thing between the ETU and NATKE, the two unions - that the ETU wanted to have all ETU members as projectionists throughout the country. It was easy enough to organise, if they […]

[…] see.Sidney Cole: Yeah, yeah.Tom Peacock: But can you remember, or are you aware of when they had that first agreement come in?Sidney Cole: The first NATKE agreement? No I don't remember that exactly, when was that?Tom Peacock: Well it must have - didn't it affect you? It affected everybody I though[…]

[…]e same job on the same shoot, in the same place, you know we’d have three unions arguing separately. You know, ludicrous. You know, actually I was in NATKE and BETA and so on. So as well as that there were kind of economies of scale and sometimes, sometimes the arguments were done well, sometimes th[…]

[…] they were all covered in.[OI] Yes.6And the members at that time were happy about it. [OI] Yes.And we had no, we did have some trouble with NATKE at one time, Kelly started giving me stamps to sell to people that were projectionists and all that and ultimately with the result of the tripar[…]

[…]d we got our permits for the Americans to come in. You know, Tom O'Brien also was quite a character in his way... Roy Fowler: Would you say that NATKE was more difficult than ACT? Andy Worker: No, no. Roy Fowler: They were very co-operative? Andy Worker: Ah hmm, Frank Chappell[?][…]