Mr, Hunter examined a draw vice and said that it was suitable for the work to be done, He also said that the Inder in question was a safe one, He stated that Maximenko lacked elementary care and should not have gone up the ladder at all to deliver the clamp, but should have sent it up by hand rope, In the afternoon, Mr. Wiener took up the cross-examination, He first asked the witness if it was customary for workmen to work above or below wires and which they were taught to do. Mr. Hunter replied that a workman worked in the way that was most comfortable to him, After this the gross-examination digressed as Mr. Wiener asked Mr. Hunter what experience he had had with electrical work in America, The latter replied that he had spent six weeks in America studying the methods there, Mr. Wiener brought out that the witness had had no actual experience in the particular job in question, which was the moving of wires from one pole to another, Some evidence followed as to where Mr. Hunter had actually got his experience, but eventually the evidence came back to the it where Mr. Hunter repeated an earlier statement that "in the United States it is allowed that where possible a man should work in the most comfortable position." He later stated in reply to a question that he thought it, was advisable to work below wires,
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