Day 276 - 09 Jul 96 - Page 25


     
     1        reference drawer", and that is incorrect.  It was just an
     2        international reference drawer for any interesting letters
     3        that came from abroad.  Some of them may have mentioned
     4        McDonald's but it was not an exclusively McDonald's drawer,
     5        it was about all campaigns and all contact from abroad.
     6
     7             Just a final point about in photograph 11, the
     8        typewriter.  In all the time that I have been going into
     9        the office I do not think I have seen anybody use that
    10        typewriter for any purpose, let alone typing up leaflets
    11        and info' sheets.
    12
    13             If we go on to Mr. Pocklington, in tab 7.
    14
    15   Q.   Yes?
    16        A.  I mean, I think he has agreed that he did not know,
    17        that he never looked through the boxes on the homemade
    18        shelving so he did not actually know what was in them.
    19        They would not have been full of fact sheets because there
    20        were not enough left, and the other thing is that where he
    21        says there was also a filing cabinet packed with leaflets,
    22        the filing cabinets were just packed with old letters and
    23        reference information.  That was not where leaflets were
    24        stored.  The leaflets were out on the shelves.  I think I
    25        have dealt with the other points.
    26
    27             The second statement of Mr. Pocklington, paragraph 21,
    28        I do not know whether I need to deal with this, actually,
    29        because I think I asked him about it and he said he did not
    30        know if I was answering letters or not, or whether I was
    31        just reading them.  If I was answering any letters it would
    32        be a very rare occasion and it would not have been
    33        anti-McDonald's letters, it would have been IMF.  Also, if
    34        I can just say, he talks in the final paragraph -- no, not
    35        in the final, in paragraph 23 of his third statement --
    36        Mr. Pocklington this is -- that anti-McDonald's leaflets
    37        were always displayed and available at the monthly open
    38        meetings which I attended having been transported from 5
    39        Caledonian Road by members of the group.  I never took part
    40        in the transport.  I have never carried any leaflets from
    41        Caledonian Road and put them in the centre of the table at
    42        Endsleigh Street, and I have never put any fact sheets in
    43        the centre of the table at Endsleigh Street, any of the
    44        anti-McDonald's fact sheets, and I think it is very
    45        unlikely that they were always there.  I think it very
    46        unlikely that any anti-McDonald's leaflets were always
    47        there.
    48
    49             Going on to Brian Bishop, just in paragraph 5 of his
    50        first statement.  Obviously, there are no lead persons in
    51        the group.  People who had maybe only been to one or two
    52        meetings and who did not really know people there might not
    53        say as much, but there was nobody -- well, there was no
    54        lead persons, there were no leaders or anything like that.
    55        In paragraph 7 he says about Charlie reading out the list
    56        of various stalls to be invited to the group and he says
    57        that myself and Dave Morris and Paul Gravett were the most
    58        vociferous.  Firstly, it is my recollection that I might
    59        have chipped in the odd occasional comment, but that I
    60        certainly would not have been the most vociferous.

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