Day 174 - 17 Oct 95 - Page 50
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2 Re-examined by MR. RAMPTON Q.C.
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4 MR. RAMPTON: Just one little question arising out of that.
5 Mr. Mehigan, when you found out about the dismissals of
6 Mr. McCann and Mr. Brian subsequently, after they had been
7 dismissed, did you ever have any sneaking suspicion that
8 Mr. McCann and Mr. Brian might be right that Mr. Trimble
9 had dismissed them for union activity; did that ever cross
10 your mind as a serious possibility?
11 A. It crossed my mind that Mr. Trimble was not coming
12 clean, when he did not refer the first communication he
13 got.
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15 Q. That was not quite my question. Did it ever occur to you
16 that Mr. Trimble might have dismissed these two for union
17 activity in the store?
18 A. It might be a possibility.
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20 Q. Mr. Trimble -- you do not know when he left. If you caught
21 a manager dismissing an employee for union activity and you
22 were sure that that is what he had done, what would your
23 attitude be to the manager?
24 A. It would be -- I would take it very seriously, and
25 I would probably at the least reprimand him.
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27 Q. Only three other very short things, Mr. Mehigan. Have you
28 got that pink -- it is a bit of a muddle there. Can you
29 put away the yellow one and keep the pink one? You will
30 not need the yellow one. Can you please turn to tab 59A in
31 the pink one -- XIII B, that is. Turn then, please, to
32 page -- it is the last page but one. Your document should
33 have page numbers; it should be number 23 in that section,
34 59A.
35 A. Yes, I have it.
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37 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I will need some help again.
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39 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, it is the last document but one in that
40 tab, immediately before the telex to Mr. Nicholson. It is
41 a typewritten document. I do not know what the handwritten
42 £11.20 represents. Do you know what that is, Mr. Mehigan
43 -- at the bottom?
44 A. Yes. It is my writing, in fact. No, I cannot recall.
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46 Q. Never mind. I am more concerned with the typescript just
47 above: ML/10/12/1979, which is the date of the document.
48 ML is who, do you know?
49 A. That is my secretary, Margaret Long.
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51 Q. Please look at the last paragraph of this document, the
52 last paragraph of writing. This reports or apparently
53 reports a conversation between Margaret Long who spoke to
54 Mr. Tommy White in the ITGWU, when you were not there?
55 A. That is correct.
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57 Q. As we see from the first paragraph. You cannot give
58 evidence about what passed between Margaret Long and
59 Mr. White. But I want to ask you to look at the last
60 paragraph. You had better read the one before. "He said"
