Day 195 - 04 Dec 95 - Page 72
1 Q. For that week?
2 A. For that week, yes.
3
4 Q. The only other thing I wanted to ask you about, Mr. Rampton
5 also asked you about on page 5 of your statement where you
6 talked about your sister?
7 A. Yes.
8
9 Q. Telling you of the story about closing the store and
10 dismissing the entire staff?
11 A. Yes.
12
13 Q. Because of the staff joining a union. When you said this
14 to the management at the Colchester store, they did not
15 immediately respond to you, "Oh no, that is complete lies"?
16 A. That is right.
17
18 Q. "You are welcome to join a union if you want to", or
19 anything like that?
20 A. They did not respond at all, no.
21
22 Q. Do you remember which Managers it was who you spoke to
23 about that?
24 A. I do not honestly remember. I know that I have talked
25 to not only one about that but several people, and the only
26 person who gave me an answer was actually Daniel
27 Rizzardini, again who said that he does not know about the
28 incident, he has not been told about the incident, he does
29 not know it.
30
31 MR. MORRIS: We are just seeing if we have any further
32 questions. I do not think we have. The last question.
33 You have talked about the management as a team?
34 A. Yes.
35
36 Q. A collective team. Did all the Managers have the same
37 attitude in terms of carrying out what you have said were
38 illegal or unethical or unfair practices?
39 A. Well, they did the same thing, but they did not have
40 the same attitude, in so far as some of them obviously did
41 certain jobs with great reluctance, whereas more ambitious
42 Managers, say Mark Davies, was one of those who was doing
43 what he was told basically or what he thought he should
44 do. He was a company man, he would have done it gladly,
45 but somebody like Ray Coton would do the same thing but
46 with reluctance. He had more compassion but it was
47 obvious -- they seemed to be both under the same sort of
48 pressure, but Ray Coton seemed to be more reluctant to
49 carry his duties out, certain duties.
50
51 MR. MORRIS: No further questions. Thank you.
52
53 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, thank you.
54
55 (The witness withdrew).
56
57 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Can we just look at the schedule? Is there
58 any possibility at all of calling Mr. Coton tomorrow
59 afternoon and having your conference with him tomorrow
60 morning? Is there any way you can get in touch with him
