Day 248 - 13 May 96 - Page 37


     
     1        back page of the second page, that it talks about
     2        London Greenpeace being active in supporting the miners'
     3        strike and the print workers sacked by Murdoch.  You were
     4        concerned that they may be influencing trade unionists
     5        about McDonald's?
     6        A.  I think Mr. Murdoch and the miners' can handle their
     7        own corner, I worry about McDonald's corner.
     8
     9   Q.   Yes, but McDonald's corner includes a non-unionised
    10        workforce.  Did that concern you as well, that
    11        London Greenpeace was actively supporting workers' rights
    12        to infiltrate union representation?
    13        A.  I know nothing more than I read here and there about
    14        print workers and miners and their situation, and it is
    15        wrong of me to comment on all of that.
    16
    17   Q.   Does it concern you that at the bottom of that paragraph it
    18        says, "We shall be exposing the tyranny of the
    19        international monetary bank and the Third World debt crisis
    20        that London Greenpeace may be actively supporting groups
    21        campaigning against an imbalance in trade cash crops, you
    22        know, economic imperialism, which had associated with
    23        McDonald's in the London Greenpeace fact sheet"?
    24        A.  I never worked with the monetary fund or the world
    25        bank.  I am certainly not involved in the Third World debt
    26        situation.  If you have a bone to pick with them, pick it.
    27        Leave me out of it.
    28
    29   Q.   The point is that the London Greenpeace group, by its own
    30        statements here, was clearly concerned with issues that
    31        related to all aspects of McDonald's business?
    32        A.  I do not know.
    33
    34   Q.   It did not have a particular grudge against McDonald's did
    35        it?
    36        A.  I do not know how what you just said shows me that at
    37        all.  I am not involved with the international monetary
    38        fund.
    39
    40   Q.   It is about economic imperialism.
    41
    42   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You may say it is, but you to have ask him
    43        whether he sees it.
    44
    45   MR. MORRIS:  The point is ----
    46
    47   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  At the moment his answer is that he had not
    48        seen it as his quarrel.
    49
    50   MR. MORRIS:  The point is that it is clear from this leaflet, is 
    51        it not, that London Greenpeace was concerned about the wide 
    52        range of issues that could relate to McDonald's? 
    53        A.  No, it is not clear to me.
    54
    55   Q.   It is clear that supporting workers' rights might relate to
    56        McDonald's is it not?
    57        A.  I do not think there is anything wrong with workers'
    58        rights in McDonald's.  I think the system works pretty
    59        good.
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