Day 193 - 28 Nov 95 - Page 41


     
     1   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, thank you.
     2
     3   MR. MORRIS:  If we go to page 1519 in the file, this is the
     4        statement on behalf of the intervening employees at the
     5        Labour Board.  It says, "Of the 32 employees whose ages
     6        were known" -- presumably known to the intervening
     7        employees' representatives -- "26 were under the age of 18
     8        at the time they signed union cards, seven of these were
     9        under the age of 16 at the time when they signed the cards
    10        to join a union", and there the proportion there seems to
    11        be the majority were under 18 and quite a small minority
    12        were under 16.  You have said you were the youngest in your
    13        class, in your year at school?
    14        A.  Yes, one of the youngest.
    15
    16   Q.   One of the youngest.  I am not sure if you have the
    17        question correctly -----
    18
    19   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It is helpful to point that out, but I do not
    20        think it advances the matter very far, because the 32 are
    21        just less than half of the 67 and, for all I know, a very
    22        large proportion might have been 16 itself.
    23
    24   MR. MORRIS:  Were most of the people who signed up actually
    25        below your year in school, or were they as old as you or
    26        older than you?
    27        A.  The majority of them were my age or older, I believe.
    28
    29   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  That does not surprise me.  They were
    30        actually in your grade or your age, anyway.
    31
    32   MR. MORRIS:  You said "or older"?
    33        A.  Yes.  Like, they would be older by -- older means by
    34        like a month or two, right.
    35
    36   Q.   Right.
    37        A.  Because I am one of the youngest in my class.  You
    38        know, if this explains it to you, people in my class, they
    39        could only be younger than me by two months, right; do you
    40        understand what I mean there?
    41
    42   Q.   I think -----
    43        A.  They could only be born in December.
    44
    45   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I have got the message.
    46        A.  Good.
    47
    48   Q.   The grade years are taken by calendar years rather than
    49        academic years.
    50        A.  Yes. 
    51 
    52   MR. MORRIS:  Right.  If I just ask the question the judge asked 
    53        again, were the people, were the majority of people who
    54        were signed up for the union older than you or younger than
    55        you?
    56
    57   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I have got the answer, Mr. Morris.
    58
    59   MR. MORRIS:  Can she just answer it again?
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