Day 248 - 13 May 96 - Page 37
1 back page of the second page, that it talks about
2 London Greenpeace being active in supporting the miners'
3 strike and the print workers sacked by Murdoch. You were
4 concerned that they may be influencing trade unionists
5 about McDonald's?
6 A. I think Mr. Murdoch and the miners' can handle their
7 own corner, I worry about McDonald's corner.
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9 Q. Yes, but McDonald's corner includes a non-unionised
10 workforce. Did that concern you as well, that
11 London Greenpeace was actively supporting workers' rights
12 to infiltrate union representation?
13 A. I know nothing more than I read here and there about
14 print workers and miners and their situation, and it is
15 wrong of me to comment on all of that.
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17 Q. Does it concern you that at the bottom of that paragraph it
18 says, "We shall be exposing the tyranny of the
19 international monetary bank and the Third World debt crisis
20 that London Greenpeace may be actively supporting groups
21 campaigning against an imbalance in trade cash crops, you
22 know, economic imperialism, which had associated with
23 McDonald's in the London Greenpeace fact sheet"?
24 A. I never worked with the monetary fund or the world
25 bank. I am certainly not involved in the Third World debt
26 situation. If you have a bone to pick with them, pick it.
27 Leave me out of it.
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29 Q. The point is that the London Greenpeace group, by its own
30 statements here, was clearly concerned with issues that
31 related to all aspects of McDonald's business?
32 A. I do not know.
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34 Q. It did not have a particular grudge against McDonald's did
35 it?
36 A. I do not know how what you just said shows me that at
37 all. I am not involved with the international monetary
38 fund.
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40 Q. It is about economic imperialism.
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42 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You may say it is, but you to have ask him
43 whether he sees it.
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45 MR. MORRIS: The point is ----
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47 MR. JUSTICE BELL: At the moment his answer is that he had not
48 seen it as his quarrel.
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50 MR. MORRIS: The point is that it is clear from this leaflet, is
51 it not, that London Greenpeace was concerned about the wide
52 range of issues that could relate to McDonald's?
53 A. No, it is not clear to me.
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55 Q. It is clear that supporting workers' rights might relate to
56 McDonald's is it not?
57 A. I do not think there is anything wrong with workers'
58 rights in McDonald's. I think the system works pretty
59 good.
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