[…]nd with this chap. And he said, ‘I’m the shop steward and I’d like a word with you’ and I said, ‘Yes?’ He said, ‘I believe you’re not a member of our union’ and I said, ‘Yes, that’s quite right’. So he said, ‘Why aren’t you?’ I said, ‘Because I’ve chosen not to be a member’ I said, ‘I’ve been leant […]
[…]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[…]
[…] he was working for himself, he still paid his dues. Was before the AU. Of course, he was a member ofUnknown Speaker 2:42 the tool makers union, or whatever they were called, called, you know, and he was in that before the 1418, war. I think, going back to Edwards, weren't they the lathe[…]
[…] fate worse than death. It would have become a puppet union. RF: Did you go to SDG [Screen Directors Guild] […]
[…]ians when you have recording sessions they don’t mess him about because they want to work on the next picture. You’ve still got this very out of date union system in the States, .. in a lot of the States. I suppose the majority of them, where you are working to union conditions that existed here twe[…]
[…]nbsp; Stopped in New York. Went on to…took three or four days to get to Sydney. By the time I had got to Sydney the European Broadcasting Union, then it’s…then in it’s embryo, and the Americans, had decided to boycott the Olympic Games. And the reason for the boycott was this, the […]
[…]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[…]
[…]Page 7Kitty Marshall Page 8Yes, I joined it when I got to London, I might have got to London in ’42, you see.It was ’43 you joined the union.Well according to my card it’s ’42.You see Big Brother’s been checking on you. Or they’ve got their records wrong, they do.[laughter] Not for th[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] that. Partly, no largely, because of the efforts of the union the authorities didn't make the mistake that they made […]
