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CINE TECHNICIAN
October 1956
LABS TO ACTION STATIONS !
March 1945
Left: Procession to Technicolor shareholders' meeting during th> dispute.
Above: George Elvin and Frank Fuller before entering shareiialders' meeting at which they put A.C.T.T.'s case.
(Pictures supplied by C. Brunei)
Twenty-one Years of Struggle
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ing was an overall wage increase and the consolidation of part of the cost of living bonus.
The reply on the employers' side was a flat refusal. After that there followed nine months of almost ceaseless struggle leading to strikes and lock-outs until eventually the whole of the processing side of the industry came to a standstill with A.C.T. members out and picketing their laboratories.
Once again Trade Union solidarity and determination won the day and when at last the Arbitration Award was given the Union received a highly satisfactory settlement. Another victory had been written into the record.
Once again George Elvin's summing up is worth recalling today:
" We have overcome threats, intimidation, refusal to negotiate, closure of their plants by the laboratory owners and a threatened shut-down in support by studio owners and newsreel
Left to right :
Picket Line at Pathe
Charles Day. Fred Cull and Ronnie Spillane
companies, all kept in tune by traditional Trade Press diatribes against A.C.T. Through all this our membership has stood firm, responding loyally and promptly to the call for necessary countermeasures to the employers1 onslaughts and valliantly and loyally flaying their part in progress towards the successful climax." Such, in broad outline, is the
story of the twenty-one years of the life of the Laboratory Section. It forms an essential chapter in the history of A.C.T.T. as a whole. But it is more than just a piece of history because it is the essential background of past achievement against which should be seen the present move once again to secure a new Laboratory Agreement.
M.C.