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?
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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?
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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.
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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
