Day 193 - 28 Nov 95 - Page 41
1 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, thank you.
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3 MR. MORRIS: If we go to page 1519 in the file, this is the
4 statement on behalf of the intervening employees at the
5 Labour Board. It says, "Of the 32 employees whose ages
6 were known" -- presumably known to the intervening
7 employees' representatives -- "26 were under the age of 18
8 at the time they signed union cards, seven of these were
9 under the age of 16 at the time when they signed the cards
10 to join a union", and there the proportion there seems to
11 be the majority were under 18 and quite a small minority
12 were under 16. You have said you were the youngest in your
13 class, in your year at school?
14 A. Yes, one of the youngest.
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16 Q. One of the youngest. I am not sure if you have the
17 question correctly -----
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19 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It is helpful to point that out, but I do not
20 think it advances the matter very far, because the 32 are
21 just less than half of the 67 and, for all I know, a very
22 large proportion might have been 16 itself.
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24 MR. MORRIS: Were most of the people who signed up actually
25 below your year in school, or were they as old as you or
26 older than you?
27 A. The majority of them were my age or older, I believe.
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29 MR. JUSTICE BELL: That does not surprise me. They were
30 actually in your grade or your age, anyway.
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32 MR. MORRIS: You said "or older"?
33 A. Yes. Like, they would be older by -- older means by
34 like a month or two, right.
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36 Q. Right.
37 A. Because I am one of the youngest in my class. You
38 know, if this explains it to you, people in my class, they
39 could only be younger than me by two months, right; do you
40 understand what I mean there?
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42 Q. I think -----
43 A. They could only be born in December.
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45 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I have got the message.
46 A. Good.
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48 Q. The grade years are taken by calendar years rather than
49 academic years.
50 A. Yes.
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52 MR. MORRIS: Right. If I just ask the question the judge asked
53 again, were the people, were the majority of people who
54 were signed up for the union older than you or younger than
55 you?
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57 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I have got the answer, Mr. Morris.
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59 MR. MORRIS: Can she just answer it again?
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