Day 174 - 17 Oct 95 - Page 33
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2 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I will not make any decision now. We will
3 see how we go. In any event, quarter to two.
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5 (Luncheon Adjournment)
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7 MR. MORRIS: Just a couple more questions on the strike. Do you
8 remember a staff meeting being held at Grafton Street
9 before the strike started? After the strike started at
10 O'Connell Street, there was a staff meeting at
11 Grafton Street before Grafton Street was affected by the
12 strike?
13 A. No, I am sorry, I cannot recollect that.
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15 Q. You cannot recollect? You cannot recollect something like
16 I mean, organised by the management, a crew meeting or
17 something like that, where the issue was discussed about:
18 there is a strike on at O'Connell Street, X, Y, Z, and
19 people being asked to say, you know, like, "Hands up who
20 wants to actually support the union action at" ------
21 A. Yes. No, I am sorry.
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23 Q. You cannot recall it?
24 A. I have no recollection of it. It is a long time ago.
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26 Q. OK. One further document to look at, which is page 983 of
27 the pink -----
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29 MR. JUSTICE BELL: XIII B, tab 59.
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31 MR. MORRIS: Yes. Thank you.
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33 THE WITNESS: I am sorry, what is that page number,
34 Mr. Morris?
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36 MR. MORRIS: It is tab 59, and it is -----
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38 MR. JUSTICE BELL: 983.
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40 MR. MORRIS: 983.
41 A. Yes, I have it.
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43 Q. It is a memo to all crew members, yes, from you?
44 A. Yes, that is correct.
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46 Q. It is 28th March, 1979; and it encloses a press cutting
47 about the petition that we looked at yesterday, or the
48 letter that had been signed by a number of people, yes?
49 The press cutting at the bottom.
50 A. Yes, that is correct. Yes, the cutting that refers to
51 the petition, I think. Is that your question?
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53 Q. Yes. In the middle paragraph of that memo by you, it says
54 something like: "I was very impressed by the petition which
55 the crew got together and which was widely reported in the
56 newspapers. See below." It was widely reported in the
57 newspapers, then?
58 A. Yes, from memory, it was. This would have been an
59 example of just one newspaper, this press cutting.
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