[…]ised.You see, what happened in every respect of that, fancy that, a man having the cheek to hit him in the [???], the vice-resident of the u-, of the union, my goodness. He was not hurt because he got plenty of flesh all round, you know. But there was this [???] And my goodness, that scene went up a[…]
[…] those days of course I wasn't a member of the Union and the union didn’t care because there was this […]
[…] was. Roy Fowler: Was Ralph busily organising people into a union? Norman Fisher: No, I was never asked to join […]
[…] there any formal facility for getting one, was there a union. DA: Yes, there was a union and I joined […]
[…]ra assistant, and I remember working for the National Coal Board, which was interesting stuff… DB: So this was via contacts or an agency? Or the union? PB-C: You mentioned the union; that was crucial at the time. The ACTT was running a closed shop, and I remember even at the very early sta[…]
[…]oing to be fairly tricky getting into television as a researcher, particularly in an ITV company, where at that sort of level you are going to need a union ticket, an ACTT ticket, so my very first job was at the Imperial War Museum Film Department. My very first boss was Anne Fleming (BEHP Interview[…]
[…]p;MI5 and told the story about F Branch that had been set up to do internal surveillance and had been routinelyLiz Forgan Page 18spying on trade unionists and members of left-wing political parties, which was an interesting and important story.[50:04]The other difficult, I mean there were a lot[…]
[…]So there was no chance of building up a wardrobe, which in a way was perfectly all right. Um, and consequently what I was going to tell you about the union, which would come in now. When I started off there, they were making - they were finishing off a film called 'Frieda' and they were - I think, t[…]
[…]e mainly concerned with a religious teaching, a very sort of basic level like. You obeyed the parish priest and got to church regular and went to communion regular and confessed your sins regular and put money in the plate regular, all that kind of thing. But there was no real, what I would call the[…]
[…]st paid by the hour, were they?Charles Wilder: That's right, they were all paid by the hour, and electricians, the electricians used to belong to two unions I remember, ETU and NATKE. And I remember there was a strike by ETU and they brought in all the NATKE electricians. But it gradually developed […]
