Day 192 - 27 Nov 95 - Page 37


     
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     2   MR. MORRIS:  We have served a document today which is a
     3        handwritten record which you have made.  There are three
     4        documents, and it is the handwritten one -- if I can pass
     5        this up to the witness?
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     7   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I will just read it through now.  It is this
     8        one?
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    10   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.
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    12   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Just let me read it through.  (Pause)  Yes.
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    14   MR. MORRIS:  Actually, I think the one handed up to the witness
    15        has my notes on it.  I do not know whether it is -- can
    16        I swap it for the original?
    17
    18   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Why not do a swap?
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    20   MR. MORRIS:  (To the witness):  Can you just explain what this
    21        is and the circumstances in which you made these notes?
    22        A.  This was presented in the crew room behind a plastic
    23        glass thing, it was a bulletin board; and Cam had --
    24        I think it was Bristol board that it was on, and it was
    25        like a cartoon of him; and he would have like fact -- like,
    26        where it says "union postings have contained a great deal
    27        of misleading information", that was the start of it, and
    28        beneath each cartoon of him there was a fact -- if you
    29        understand what I mean?
    30
    31   Q.   Yes.
    32        A.  Like there was -- there was one drawing where he was
    33        sort of -- he referred to himself at this point as Candid
    34        Cam, was sort of his nickname, and there was a drawing of
    35        him in a sort of Superman costume with a cape and he was
    36        sort of flying down to the ballot box, and there was barbed
    37        wire round it and he was sort of cutting it, and he was
    38        saying: "We have won the right for you guys to vote, to
    39        make up your own decisions now."  Like, that was part of
    40        his campaign, that, you know, "It was us that really gave
    41        you the right to vote."
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    43   Q.   Even though, of course, he had tried to prevent people
    44        having the right to join a union?
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    46   MR. RAMPTON:  Wait a minute.  My Lord, Mr. Morris cannot say
    47        that.  It is not so, as we will shortly find out.
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    49   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You have done pretty well at just getting
    50        evidence from the witnesses, without having your four 
    51        penn'orth.  You can have six penn'orth at the end of the 
    52        case.  Just ask questions. 
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    54   MR. MORRIS:   How did you come to write this down; can you
    55        explain?
    56        A.  I wrote it down to show the union what management was
    57        putting up to the employees, that is all.
    58
    59   Q.   That is the original piece of paper you wrote it down on?
    60        As we can see, you have torn it off some available piece of

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