Day 140 - 22 Jun 95 - Page 19

     
     1   Q.   1981.
     2        A.  No.  You are getting me confused big time.
     3
     4   Q.   I think it is behind your statement, you have got the
     5        average hourly rate figures.
     6        A.  All right.
     7
     8   Q.   Do you want to get that out?
     9
    10   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It is yellow X.  It is right, again, behind
    11        you on the top shelf.
    12        A.  Yes, I have it; and you want me to go to my statement?
    13
    14   MS. STEEL:  Yes, please.  I think it is behind the second
    15        statement at page 76.
    16        A.  76, sure.
    17
    18   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, in tab 5.
    19
    20   MS. STEEL:  You have got minimum wage rates at the bottom of
         that chart.
    22        A.  Please let me catch up with you.
    23
    24   Q.   Sorry.
    25        A.  Is that before the licence agreements or after?
    26
    27   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No.  If you look in divider 5, the very last
    28        sheet of that before divider 6 is page 76 at the bottom.
    29        A.  Thank you, my Lord.
    30
    31   Q.   Among "other information", it has "minimum wages" and when
    32        they were bought in.
    33        A.  My Lord, I am sorry, I am still having trouble finding
    34        it.  OK.
    35
    36   MS. STEEL:  The federal minimum wage rates you have listed
    37        there, are they all the increases that occurred?
    38        A.  I believe so, yes.
    39
    40   Q.   So you would accept, then, that at the date of the
         Philadelphia Unemployment Project Report of November 1989,
    42        there had not been an increase in the minimum wage rate for
    43        eight years, nearly nine years?
    44        A.  Since '81, since the date that is on 76.
    45
    46   Q.   But, presumably, there had been inflation in that time?
    47        A.  There had been some.
    48
    49   Q.   Do you know what the average inflation was per year?
    50        A.  No, I do not. 
    51 
    52   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I am not going to draw any -- I am just 
    53        pointing out, without seeking to draw any conclusion to
    54        mount an argument, if you want, in due course, that the
    55        nearest we get to 3.35 there is 3.38 in May and June 1980
    56        on the average hourly rates; and the average hourly rates
    57        as an equivalent time come November 1989 were 4.73.
    58
    59        (To the witness)  So in so far as -- and I certainly cannot
    60        judge it -- McDonald's average hourly rates might reflect