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1 data. However, we are not experts, we are not compensation
2 experts, and our analysis showed the 22 cents which we
3 disclosed. When they took the information and went through
4 it, as experts in the area, that is what they came up with.
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6 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It is right to point out that if McDonald's
7 officials made any statement such as appears at the foot of
8 the first column and into the second column, it could not
9 have been on the basis of the Towers report?
10 A. Correct, my Lord, absolutely correct.
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12 MR. MORRIS: It could have been on the basis that the minimum
13 wage rates had changed the month that this article was
14 written at the end of, so the Company was quoting new
15 rates.
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17 MR. JUSTICE BELL: There we are.
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19 MR. MORRIS: In the last column on that page, where it says: "A
20 smaller sampling of New Jersey McDonald's restaurants
21 showed a similar but less dramatic disparity at locations
22 around Camden." What is Camden?
23 A. New Jersey.
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25 Q. "....quoted starting salaries ranging from $4 to $4.50 per
26 hour, and further in more affluent areas starting workers
27 at $4.50 to $5 an hour."
28 A. I am not sure what that refers to at all.
29
30 Q. You do not think this is a pattern that is repeated all
31 over the country in suburbs, or was it at the time ---
32 A. No, I do not.
33
34 Q. -- that black workers in the inner city areas -----
35 A. Excuse me. Characterisation of black workers in the
36 city -- some cities are white, some have more blacks than
37 others. I do not think it is fair to characterise it as
38 black.
39
40 Q. It would apply to all basically poor ---
41 A. People working -----
42
43 Q. -- poorer workers would get less wages than those in the
44 richer suburban areas?
45 A. I disagree with that.
46
47 MS. STEEL: If you could just turn to page 1444 in the pink
48 bundle?
49 A. You are talking about 44?
50
51 Q. Tab 84.
52 A. Tab 84? Yes.
53
54 Q. If you turn to page 1444, in the middle, it has got facts
55 about McDonald's. McDonald's made $646 million net profit
56 in 1988; is that correct?
57 A. I cannot tell you whether that is correct or not.
58
59 Q. Approximately?
60 A. I cannot even do that. I am not a financial guy. I do
