[…]et rid of him...they made up this rather woolly accusation, that he’d fiddled his expense or something. Well, he hadn’t as it happened and he got the union involved: reluctantly the union got involved – no, it wasn’t the union then, it was the Staff Association, that’s right and they took up the cau[…]
[…]t. I found that the music Department had allocated a budget of £900 for ballet. That was it. I read all the directives from Equity and the Musician’s Union and all........Fortnum and Bennett. It was perfectly clear you could not do a ballet for £900, if you obeyed the rules. If there was a small com[…]
[…]can suddenly appear and be nominated for an Academy Award, there is something in that system of film making, and we can't do it now... because of the union trouble. So that it means that a vital form, a powerful form of expression on the screen, is denied it, which is tragic. And not only that, the […]
[…]alled Pennett-Elkington, who enabled me to form a thing called the Adelphi Play Society, which is all to do with the background I'm coming to - trade unions, etc. And Elkington... we took the little theatre which was in the Adelphi, a very famous little theatre. And, of course, you could hire it the[…]
[…]doesn't matter whether he's next in turn or not, the producer has him." Because there had been a strict rota before that. Roy Fowler: Andy, were unions a pain in the arse in the fifties and the sixties? They had been rather earlier hadn't they, in the forties, I think they achieved their maximu[…]
[…]ians when you have recording sessions they don’t mess him about because they want to work on the next picture. You’ve still got this very out of date union system in the States, .. in a lot of the States. I suppose the majority of them, where you are working to union conditions that existed here twe[…]
[…]w they organized the newsreels, and the effect that it had.Speaker 1 12:11 Well, the thing that I knew was I was a member of the National Union of Journalists,Roy Fowler 12:21 and I came into, we're talking now, of when, what issues,Speaker 1 12:24 the beginning o[…]
[…] You say you were part of the arrival of the Union at the studio. E.M. Smedley-Aston: Oh no, I can't […]
[…] that we were still in the clutches of the awful union problems and it was unbelievable because of course theoretically […]
