Day 184 - 06 Nov 95 - Page 52
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2 Q. I will not go through these letters now; no doubt, that
3 will come when we get a Civil Evidence Act notice on them
4 but -----
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6 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Are the letters in the Notice of Civil
7 Evidence Act evidence just the same as the letters in there
8 or 22 of the letters with the form the Civil Evidence Act
9 statement being identified, the attached letter, the
10 contents of the letter are true?
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12 MR. RAMPTON: There are two differences, my Lord. One is that
13 in some of the Civil Evidence Act versions the missing
14 names have been filled in. In all of the cases the letters
15 are complete, which in bundle 14 is not always the case,
16 because for some reason, which is a mystery to me, some of
17 the letters in bundle 14 have a second page missing. As
18 far as I know, in the Civil Evidence Act case, the letters
19 are complete. That is the only difference.
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21 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. (To the witness): Whose idea was it
22 that you should write the John Doe letter?
23 A. Well, the letters themselves, it said on the
24 application if you, you know, want, if you feel any of
25 these three things, and it had an A, B and C, they said,
26 "Write a letter to so-and-so", and -----
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28 Q. But who -----
29 A. But Chris Broom -- Chris Broom and Michelle and I,
30 because a lot of people were confused ---
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32 Q. But -----
33 A. -- about how to write it down.
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35 Q. Go back a stage. When you say on the application it
36 said -- this was posted in the store, was it?
37 A. It was the union's papers, like, the Labour Board.
38 I am not sure. They sent these green sheets, saying, you
39 know, an application has been made for a union.
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41 Q. Right.
42 A. "If you feel any of these things have happened", and
43 said, like, "(A) you have been misrepresented; (B)" -----
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45 Q. But that was from the National Labour Relations Board?
46 A. Right; either from the union or the National Labour
47 Board, I am not sure. They were green sheets.
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49 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It very much sounds to me, Mr. Morris, as if
50 it would be a standard form from the National Labour
51 Relations Board, in the light of the issues as they are
52 shown on the application and the response to it in
53 bundle 14.
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55 MR. MORRIS: A number of those statements -- possibly even the
56 majority, I am not sure -- talk about: "We were not
57 informed about the bad points. We got the pros about the
58 union, but not the cons"; and we have already looked at
59 some of those benefits that may have been withheld or
60 whatever, or renegotiated.
