[…]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[…]
[…]armed person in the forces you needed around 13 or 14 people in civilian life as a back up to that. Partly, no largely, because of the efforts of the union the authorities didn't make the mistake that they made in the First World War which was virtually to kill the British film industry which had be[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] that. Partly, no largely, because of the efforts of the union the authorities didn't make the mistake that they made […]
[…] Zealand equity.John P Hamilton 12:36 What did you do with a broom? We all know the answer to that. So you joined equity your first trade unionGerald Chambers 12:45 was in was in was in New Zealand as an actor, as an actor. And I still have my card signed by a Mr. Jacques Fle[…]
[…]s which they controlled in order to broadcast the material we created. Secondly they were almost invariably either in or on the verge of being in the union and those were experiences which most producers knew nothing about at all most of our skills were literary skills or quasi literary or journalis[…]
[…] 50:46 Yours is okay? Oh, there it is. It was it comes on, right?Speaker 1 50:55 I mean hiring and firing, of course, with no unions, no indeed. So IRoy Fowler 51:08 A my channel keeps breaking up, though that's all right now, hello, I'm sorry to be doing this, bu[…]
[…] in that industry for nine years, eight years in the union. Yes, yes. Which is, mm, NUBSO. Yes. I then, […]
[…]use I don't remember much about him really. Of course the other guy was there he came over, who was the ex-Spitfire pilot who still does things RAF reunions and things? John P. Hamilton 6:18 Oh, Tony. John Ammonds 6:22 OBs he works a […]
