Day 145 - 29 Jun 95 - Page 53


     
     1        members, and that that is the way essentially the game is
     2        played, if you will, and that under those circumstances
     3        I should not be upset that he did what he did.  I told him
     4        that he should bring labour relations to a higher level of
     5        integrity and not just do something blindly because
     6        somebody says somebody else did something wrong.
     7
     8   Q.   Perhaps a slight side issue on that.  Do you have
     9        experience in these labour disputes of what each side, now
    10        this is a general question, whether it be employer, union
    11        or both, may say during the course of that dispute about
    12        each other?
    13        A.  Yes, I think that I may have tried to describe it.
    14
    15   Q.   Pause there. How do you characterise the kind of
    16        information which may be put out by the unions during the
    17        course of those disputes from your experience?  Is it of
    18        factual quality or what?
    19        A.  No, it is clearly not factual.  It is meant to discuss
    20        their position in what I call a political kind of way.
    21        I think I mentioned earlier, it is similar to what you
    22        would experience in your House of Commons as I see it on TV
    23        in the US.
    24
    25   Q.   Curiously enough, Mr. Stein, we are not in these courts
    26        allowed to express adverse views about what happens in the
    27        Commons.
    28        A.  I do not mean anything adverse.
    29
    30   Q.   That is a frivolous remark.  Mr. Stein, going back then to
    31        Tysons, did you manage to persuade Mr. Gallein of the error
    32        of his ways?
    33        A.  I was not able to -- let me put it this way.  He sent
    34        me a letter after that meeting, it was I think several
    35        months after that meeting, and in the letter he indicated
    36        that he had cancelled the boycott against McDonald's and
    37        that he would do everything he could to stop any boycott
    38        activities that were happening around the world.  He also
    39        said in the letter to me that the Tyson matter was an
    40        unusual matter, I believe his terms, and it was not a
    41        reflection of McDonald's corporate policies with regard to
    42        labour relations.  I must note that I saw documents here
    43        that go back to 1983, 1984 that the Defendants showed me,
    44        but I did not see that letter in that batch.
    45
    46   MR. RAMPTON:  Thank you, Mr. Stein.  My Lord, maybe now
    47        Mr. Stein could be released?
    48
    49   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  Thank you, Mr. Stein.  You are released
    50        as far as this court is concerned. 
    51 
    52                       (The witness withdrew). 
    53
    54   MR. MORRIS:  As it has now been raised in evidence, can we have
    55        a copy of that letter from Mr. Gallein if the Plaintiffs
    56        have it in their possession, unless Mr. Stein has a
    57        miraculous memory?
    58
    59   MR. RAMPTON:  No.  Let Mr. Morris raise that on Monday, my Lord.
    60        There may be a question of relevance involved.

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