Search Results for: Union (ACTT)

[…]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[…]

[…] course. And I have to say, I don't say with any pride, obviously, that I got so interested in involved in all the various activities of the Students Union and so forth, their social events and whatnot. The right cloud? my degree, I didn't get it. I got my part one, no problem at all, but Part Two n[…]

[…] projectionist?Eddie Dryhurst: Yeah, most of them were moonlighting. Er, I think the projectionists were also moonlighting, yes.Roy Fowler: Were they union members already at that stage?Eddie Dryhurst: There were no unions in those days.Roy Fowler: Not at all, not even for the projectionists?Eddie D[…]

[…]e director. Then I. started on my second film lighting but I was in dead trouble because ACT, NATKE and ETU had come to an agreement where one of the unions was weak the other two would help. Ealing was one of those studios. We were quite strong, NATKE was quite strong, ETU were not strong. In fact […]

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

[…] had a shirt which had been made out of a union Jack. This sort of extroverted character. Anyway we worked […]

[…] 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[…]