Day 188 - 15 Nov 95 - Page 30


     
     1   Q.   Right.  If I continue to read:
     2
     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."
     7
     8        Who did they protest to?
     9        A.  To the manager who was saying, "No, you have got to go
    10        and do something."
    11
    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.
    20
    21        "The crew members were clearly frightened of speaking their
    22        minds on film."
    23
    24        I am not going to read any of that out.
    25
    26        "We filmed a rap session at the Strand store at which
    27        relatively mild complaints were made."
    28
    29        Is that the rap session that you showed in the film?
    30        A.  Yes.  It was only one rap session that we filmed.
    31
    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."
    35
    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.
    46
    47   Q.   These students, were they all managerial grades?
    48        A.  Yes, they were all there for the managers training
    49        course.
    50 
    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."
    55
    56        So he spoke to you?
    57        A.  Yes.
    58
    59   Q.   Right.  Did you hear these opening remarks and Alistair's
    60        question?

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