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[…]t was it like when you started off at first and has it progressed? R: I think the progression that I've seen was mainly, putting it in the Trade Union viewpoint, we had a four-man crew to operate what we now do as a one-man job in studios. We had a Sound Mixer. We had an assistant Sound Mixer. […]

[…], but he wasn't offering my any more, so I was getting, presumably, whatever the rate was.Alan Lawson: Uh hmm.David Prosser: Oh, and I had joined the Union in 1943, after I'd returned to Movietone, because prior to that we didn't...nobody at Movietone belonged to the Union at all. And we all joined […]

[…] 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[…]

[…]k Gemmell, Terry Ashwood. [Pause] Frank Bassill.Ken Gordon?Ken, Ken Gordon, oh yes, old Ken, a friend of mine, yes.Yes. [Laughter]These were all good union men. And Ken Gordon and, oh, there was quite a few of them. And then we had Bob Walker, Danvers Walker, he was a commentator.Y es.13Name of inte[…]

[…]p;MI5 and told the story about F Branch that had been set up to do internal surveillance and had been routinelyLiz Forgan Page 18spying on trade unionists and members of left-wing political parties, which was an interesting and important story.[50:04]The other difficult, I mean there were a lot[…]

[…] a Denham shop because at that "time not everyone working at Denham was in the ACT and I was about the only member of the sound department who in the union. One lunchtime I remember we had a meeting with both Anthony Asquith who was the president in those days and George Elvin and they both addresse[…]

[…]atest problemswith Sidney were protecting people who he wanted to fire and stopping him from taking the mostoutrageously autocratic actions vis-a-vis unions which would immediately have caused a strike. Hecould not ever understand why shop stewards couldn't see reason - which meant seeing things the[…]