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Tj^IVE minutes to six in Wardour Street on Friday P afternoon, 19th March, a small knot of determined looking men outside the doors of Pathe Labs. Somebody was writing down his address on a piece of paper; another had a bulky folder, in which I could see a bundle of stamped envelopes with money in them — evidence of final organisation by the A.C.T. Committee.
Ronnie Spillane greeted me : " Just like the last time," he said, recalling the Pathe strike of February 1953, " only this time locked out."
In the Neg Room at Denlabs on the same afternoon the last bits of negative were being booked out. The girls had cleared out their lockers and emptied the pockets of their white overalls which they had to hand in. Mrs. Eva Brown, who herself was once Shop Steward, praised the magnificent work of the present Steward, Paul de Burgh. It was going to be tough for Paul and his wife Joyce, as both worked in the Optical Dept. at Denlabs, and both would be out of work together — though they had their holiday pay to tide them over a while. When I ran into Paul a few days later, he was busy arranging Benevolent Fund payments to some in a less fortunate position than himself. Joyce, he said, was " dead solid " about the whole affair, though with his Steward's duties she didn't see much of her husband.
Morale was high at Pathe, Elstrce, too. The big joke there were the two titles in the last batch of 16mm. printing — The Price of Enterprise, which Stan Warbey was handling, and How to Meet the Boss, which Gordon Beavis was printing. Maybe the Film Laboratory Association ought to have taken a look at those two pictures.
Outside Technicolor police squad cars stood by as the workers clocked off their various shifts for the last time for many days.
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THE CINE-TECHNICIAN April 1954
THE FILM
LABORATORIES'
LOCK-OUT
CINE'S SPECIAL ACCOUNT OF LABORATORY WORKERS DURING THE 12-DAY LOCK-OUT, JUST ENDED . . . THE PICKET LINES, THE MARCHES, THE COMMITTEES AND MASS MEETINGS . . . THE EXCITEMENTS, INCIDENTS AND ACTIVITIES AMONG THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO PROCESS THE FILMS SHOWN IN THE CINEMAS. COMPILED BY CHRIS BRUNEL.
The long and short of i< — on first day picket at Pathe,
Wardour Street. G. Anderson and \V. Meredith. Top left:
A.C.T. Secretar\ George Elvln talks to Frank Fuller at
Waldorf.