Day 159 - 20 Jul 95 - Page 43


     
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     2   Q.   No Manager has ever told you but that?
     3        A.  No.  Nothing has ever been discussed about unions at
     4        all by anybody.
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     6   Q.   But it has happened, has it not?
     7        A.  No, not as far as I know.
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     9   Q.   Well, Mr. Giardina says he found some union leaflets ----
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    11   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, now we are getting into idiotic
    12        territory.
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    14   MR. MORRIS:  No, we are not all.  We are getting to very
    15        interesting territory.
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    17   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, I am making an objection. If Mr. Morris
    18        might have the courtesy to sit down.
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    20   MR. MORRIS:  I think the witness should be asked to leave the
    21        room because otherwise Mr. Rampton is doing as he always
    22        does ----
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    24   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No, because I have something to say about it
    25        as well.  What I wish to say is that this may be a
    26        completely unnecessary challenge.  The mere fact that
    27        Mrs. Farrer who went into the crew room from time to time,
    28        even near enough every day as she now recalls it when
    29        Mr. Giardina was Manager, does not mean to say she would
    30        necessarily have seen leaflets if they were on the table.
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    32   MR. MORRIS:  That is not the point I was making.
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    34   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Or a union poster if it was on the notice
    35        board.
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    37   MR. MORRIS:  No, I am not saying she should have done.
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    39   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  But you are putting it to her.
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    41   MR. MORRIS:  I was going to put something else to her but
    42        Mr. Rampton interrupted me.
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    44   MR. RAMPTON:  I wish to repeat what I said.
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    46   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Let us go back, first of all.  But it has
    47        happened, has it not?
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    49   MR. RAMPTON:  Exactly.
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    51   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  The witness says, "No, not as far as I know", 
    52        and then you start telling her what Mr. Giardina has said 
    53        which is totally irrelevant.
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    55   MR. MORRIS:  It is already accepted in this case by Tony
    56        Giardina that there were union leaflets left in the union
    57        room and the poster put up some days later, and he
    58        remembers it to this day, when he was Manager recruiting
    59        for a union.  (To the witness): He had never told you that?
    60        A.  No.  No, nothing has ever been mentioned of unions at

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