Day 188 - 15 Nov 95 - Page 30
1 Q. Right. If I continue to read:
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3 "Sometimes the delay was only a couple of minutes;
4 sometimes it would obviously involve considerably longer,
5 perhaps half an hour. I saw a number of crew members
6 protest."
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8 Who did they protest to?
9 A. To the manager who was saying, "No, you have got to go
10 and do something."
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12 Q. "In each case, the answer was that if they did not like it
13 they could always leave the Company. One of the crew
14 members at the Strand, a young black woman under 20, was
15 arguing with her shift manager one evening. If he insisted
16 on keeping her on beyond her shift, she would miss her last
17 bus home and end up having to catch a taxi. Again, the
18 simple reply was if she did not like it, she need not
19 bother coming back for her next shift.
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21 "The crew members were clearly frightened of speaking their
22 minds on film."
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24 I am not going to read any of that out.
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26 "We filmed a rap session at the Strand store at which
27 relatively mild complaints were made."
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29 Is that the rap session that you showed in the film?
30 A. Yes. It was only one rap session that we filmed.
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32 Q. The next point: "We also filmed a session at the Hamburger
33 University at which a manager asked a question implying
34 criticism of the training programme."
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36 It may be helpful if we go to your notes here, because it
37 actually has more details -- pages 15 and 16 of the
38 notes. Just tell me if this is true. You have already
39 averred your notes. "At the university, before course
40 started, students were called into separate room by
41 Bill Tindale and told to look alert at all times, not to
42 fall asleep and not to be critical." Is that something
43 that you witnessed?
44 A. No. It was a student that told us that is what had
45 happened.
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47 Q. These students, were they all managerial grades?
48 A. Yes, they were all there for the managers training
49 course.
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51 Q. "During Anne Henderson's opening remarks, Alistair asked a
52 question which was critical of a university course and its
53 method of introduction. Bill Tindale immediately said that
54 could not be included in film, to me."
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56 So he spoke to you?
57 A. Yes.
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59 Q. Right. Did you hear these opening remarks and Alistair's
60 question?
