[…]entualities and it would be lovely to have them as a matter of record. So I then wrote, having thought about it a bit I then wrote an article for the union, it was ACT in those days, for the union journal which was called, in fact Sue’s just found a copy Don’t Let The Incinerator Claim Our Golden Ag[…]
[…]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 […]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] I believe the, the local working ladies used, used to come round at lunchtimecouldn’t they?Oh no. A thing that struck me as a very, very, as a trade unionist talk about Women’s Lib. I knew what would happen when Women’s Lib started getting off because the women, well, the post girls and negati[…]
[…] fate worse than death. It would have become a puppet union. RF: Did you go to SDG [Screen Directors Guild] […]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] member of ours at one time. Yes, she was a union member as well. A great union member. And do […]
