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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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).
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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?
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59 MR. RAMPTON: No. Let Mr. Morris raise that on Monday, my Lord.
60 There may be a question of relevance involved.
