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[…] in this country but in that pre-handbagging era the film union was guarding its closed shop with concentrated might. To […]

[…]t would have been one of the Gaumont British newsreel cameramen someone 1ike Edmunds. It would be one of them.KGY: Can you recall the period from the union point of view.CC: I can only remember and it was an awful long time ago, it wasn't a union in the sense that the union is today. It was the sort[…]

[…]sp;4:33  it's all going very much because this sort of subsidiaryUnknown Speaker  4:36  interpolate into matches where film orientated union to some degree. I mean the history project. They played in cinemas video notUnknown Speaker  4:47  a cinema. Yes. That was another fun[…]

[…] we were in a way, we weren't members of the Union. They really hated our guts and I think this […]

[…] didn't know any other way, you know, it was grand! Anyway, the next rather frightening thing that happened there was the thing that put me off trade unions for many, many, many years. And it has a sequel later on, which we'll be talking about. But, during that period, there was the big strike which[…]

[…]s. So our family was known in the whole of Vienna, I should say, as left wing.Speaker 2  5:01  And in 1934 they had begun to imprison trade unionists, even church people, for protesting against the semi fascist government we had then in Austria, the Dolphus government. So as the economic s[…]

[…]r a studio. And I got up next morning went and had breakfast at and then went to the studio and there they were they were still shooting and the only union of any consequence of having any muscle in those days was electricians and their only power was in the fact that they had to have a meal break e[…]

[…]se days, it was a closed shop. I only managed to get the job because nobody else wanted it, basically. Because any, any jobs have to be advertised to union members first. And so and then as I think I have to wait a few months before I could apply for union ticket, and then as soon as I could, I did […]