Charles Potter

[…]films or clips. And then I've already talked about, we launched, we was very much mixed up in inter city. And then, of course, there's a thing called union, union international cement affair, which is, which is an early runner of the EEC only, railways only based in Paris, called the UIC and all the[…]

A A (Tubby) Englander

[…]s to the ACT but we were still members. That was an arrangement that was brought in, oh, quite early on actually because the ABS was the only sort of union that was recognised by the BBC. And because the BBC wouldn't recognise ACT, ACT said that we could all still remain members but we would not hav[…]

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[…] You say you were part of the arrival of the Union at the studio. E.M. Smedley-Aston: Oh no, I can't […]

Vernon Sewell

[…] to me, "Mr Sewell, we invite you to join the union." I said, "Thank you very much, I don't need […]

Barry Quinton

[…] worked my way up to be in charge of the Cinema Division which covered all grades of Cinema employees except for management which had their own Trade Union at that time.Interviewer: I see. And how many years did that go on for? How long were you with NATKE? Barry Quinton: I was with N[…]

John Wiles

[…]g happened to me was getting just back a bit so that I was working with Railton Oh, you may not know it's good Cameron and right. And he was a strong union mind. And of course, at this time, not everyone was in the union. You didn't have to be it was just really the beginnings of it. So I joined and[…]

Michael Aldridge

[…]fairly regular meetings.  Because I worked in Dean Street, there was laboratory meetings for once every couple of months. And although they were union meetings, they were quite interesting because you could talk to the other ... I mean people from Humphries and Kays and Technicolor were there a[…]

Joe Busuttil

[…]ff around that weighed, three, four, five hundred weight steel.  And you had to be careful because, you know.  So anyway, I got a ticket, a union, Bob said to me ‘well, join the union like,’.  So I said ‘why’.  And he said ‘well, once you join the union you have got a Sparks tick[…]

E M (Michael) Smedley Aston

[…]and...Roy Fowler: Well we haven't quite. One final thing we haven't touched on - the arrival of ACT. You say you were part of the arrival of the Union at the studio.E.M. Smedley-Aston: Oh no, I can't claim that, oh no.Roy Fowler: Oh I thought you were when you mentioned - when you tal[…]
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