[…]ted to live there, because I had always thought I did, and, and then stay. And as soon as I was working there, I realised, unlike England, there were union and non-union movies. So I couldn’t get into the union. Paramount had been trying for some time to get me in the union there, and couldn’t. But […]
[…]rs. They were not like the Quickie days we used to have in England. You know, years ago, there were, there were no shop stewards on the floor, no, no unions, no union those days, no. But there was a certain tolerance of what, how far, you know, you can push people, and everybody was so keen to finis[…]
[…]sp;of this recording is vested in the Ac t t history project. Brian Schilling's union organizer interviewer Sid go with Alan Lawson recorded on the 4th of December&n[…]
[…]Page 7Kitty Marshall Page 8Yes, I joined it when I got to London, I might have got to London in ’42, you see.It was ’43 you joined the union.Well according to my card it’s ’42.You see Big Brother’s been checking on you. Or they’ve got their records wrong, they do.[laughter] Not for th[…]
[…]ame walking out, and he said, “Right that, print it’. [LAUGHTER] But we used to work some terrible hours, I’ll tell you! That’s the Union. You don’t want to get to the Union yet do you?ALAN LAWSON: Well no, the conditions then when you were working are interesting.HARRY MILLE[…]
[…]ts] What was his name, do you remember?WR: I can’t remember, but I’m going to be a bit libellous, he said he didn’t like ACT and they didn’t have the unions, and if there wasn’t much doing and he asked me to clean his car, then I cleaned his car. So that didn’t go very much further that morning. Wel[…]
[…] fate worse than death. It would have become a puppet union. RF: Did you go to SDG [Screen Directors Guild] […]
[…] member of ours at one time. Yes, she was a union member as well. A great union member. And do […]
[…]s also,she‟d had TB and she hadn‟t worked for some, all the time I wasn‟t working she hadn‟t.She was also a member of ours at one time.Yes, she was a union member as well.A great union member.And do you remember her coming round with this advertisement, she said „how about trying for this‟? She[…]
[…]n't know. But I'll tell you one thing which was awfully good in those days, we could all learn our jobs without any barriers. I don't mean this anti -union. But I'm just pointing what I did, for instance, I was able to go and work in the cutting room, being a writer, being gag man on the set. I coul[…]
