Day 143 - 27 Jun 95 - Page 10

     
     1        pleaded this is pleading No. 100.
     2        A.  Is this something I should be looking at?
     3
     4   Q.   I can just tell you -- you do not have to get it out --
     5        that McDonald's employees in Austria were in fear of losing
     6        their jobs if they discussed joining a trade union.
     7
     8   MR. RAMPTON:  No, my Lord.  I am sorry.  I have, your
     9        Lordship, the same reservations as your Lordship about
    10        Mr. Morris' ability to summarise things fairly.  I would
    11        ask that the witness be given the pleading because that is
    12        not what it says.
    13
    14   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  Mine seems to have disappeared.  I have
    15        it again now.
    16
    17   MR. MORRIS:  I was only trying to save time.
    18
    19   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  The abstracts of the pleading bundle; it has
    20        a white spine.
    21
    22   THE WITNESS:  Yes, I have it.
    23
    24   MR. MORRIS:  It is No. 100, yes, on page 35?
    25        A.  OK.
    26
    27   Q.   "The Austrian Federation of Labour in or around April 1986
    28        publicised that McDonald's employees were in fear of losing
    29        their jobs if they discussed joining a trade union, a
    30        female employee made a public statement on this."   Do you
    31        know anything about the relations between the unions in
    32        Austria and McDonald's?
    33        A.  No, I do not, absolutely nothing.  To my knowledge,
    34        there has not been any dispute or problems that I am aware
    35        of.
    36
    37   Q.   Have you visited Austria?
    38        A.  I was once in a resort town but not there on business.
    39
    40   Q.   We will move on from that.  I am going to come on to
         something completely different for a moment:  We are moving
    42        away from the union issue for the moment, the case of
    43        Mr. Faverty in the state of Oregon.
    44
    45   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Is this a particular?
    46
    47   MR. MORRIS:  No. 84 is the pleading.  There should be a document
    48        in pink XIII, tab 57, I am informed.  I do not know if you
    49        have pink XIII, tab 57?  Maybe we do not have to refer to
    50        it but you can get it, if you want to. 
    51 
    52   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I suggest you start asking your questions and 
    53        if you need to refer Mr. Stein to a document, do so.  In
    54        fact, there are copious documents on this.
    55
    56   MR. MORRIS:  Yes, I am not going to refer to hardly any of them.
    57
    58   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Let us see if we can do it without documents.
    59
    60   MR. MORRIS:  I am trying to save time.  Just to make sure I have