[…]That was the area in which I worked. And it was around that time, within a few months, I joined ACT. Manny Yospa: Was it difficult in organising unions in Kodak? Geoff Conway: Oh yes. They wouldn't recognise unions, they had their own in-house representation union as it were which was fina[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]the works committee was named Bert Batchelor. Now I personally found him very friendly, but like everything else, when you hold a position in a trade union, some people like you and some people don't. But I liked the man and therefore I've got some nice memories of the man you know, because to me, h[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…] that we were still in the clutches of the awful union problems and it was unbelievable because of course theoretically […]
[…]as taken out of his hands with national agreements affecting pretty well everybody but Roy wanted, really, a tight deal whenever he could get it. The Unions, on the other hand, I always thought it at the time, I could understand it but I always thought at the time, a little foolish because they want[…]
[…] we were in a way, we weren't members of the Union. They really hated our guts and I think this […]
