[…] to it as well, you know, the work in the laboratories I feel now has become far more technical than ever it was in the old days. The result of trade union activity within the industry has removed some of the fears. Nowadays, because of the variations of procedure and method. One cannot pursue the o[…]
[…]r the company is that right?Speaker 1 9:34 An agreement, yes. And one of the clauses in there that you were not permitted to join a trade union. That's Yes, you know, yesUnknown Speaker 9:47 was I believeSpeaker 1 9:49 F Brown. I was surprised when I was at the Mu[…]
[…]: And I said, "Oh, well I think I ought to join that," you see. And he nearly fell down when somebody actually volunteered that he wanted to join the union. And so that was it, I joined on the spot and I didn't pay any really very active role until...Alan Lawson : When was that?Gordon McCallum : Tha[…]
[…] it seems incredible now – a history of the trade union movement, with Lord Francis Williams, Postmaster General in Attlee’s […]
[…] made by Turnward and Newell [?] of Norwich. Involved in Union activity throughout his career, he also gives a very […]
[…] when somebody actually volunteered that he wanted to join the union. And so that was it, I joined on the […]
[…]k Gemmell, Terry Ashwood. [Pause] Frank Bassill.Ken Gordon?Ken, Ken Gordon, oh yes, old Ken, a friend of mine, yes.Yes. [Laughter]These were all good union men. And Ken Gordon and, oh, there was quite a few of them. And then we had Bob Walker, Danvers Walker, he was a commentator.Y es.13Name of inte[…]
[…]That was the area in which I worked. And it was around that time, within a few months, I joined ACT. Manny Yospa: Was it difficult in organising unions in Kodak? Geoff Conway: Oh yes. They wouldn't recognise unions, they had their own in-house representation union as it were which was fina[…]
[…] 8 sound crews at that time) in to the ACT union in 1938. The membership increased dramatically after a recruiting […]
[…]glish journalist called Coker, Albert Coker, and, who was a friend of a friend of the Humphrey Slater’s, who was a well- known intellectual Communist Union, and friend of mine and he had a British passport. Then, after some time I discovered the corruption, the terrible corruption that existed at th[…]
