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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4400, 9 February 1883, Page 4

At Bockhampton recently a man was engaged to assist-in unloading a steamer, he haring appealed to the chief officer to give him a job, as be had no money and was starring. Unfortunately' (says the Australasian) he was not a member of the Laborers' Union,, and immediately after he bad oommenced work the other men—* who are all members of the Union—refused to continue unless the starving man were discharged. Unwillingly, the officer explained the circumstances to the poor fellow, who replied that he would joio the Union so soon as be had money to pay the entrance fee- This promise would not satisfy the Union, men; whereupon the man appealed to each in turn, begging tbem to withdraw their opposition andpernrit him to earn enough to obtain a supply of-food. They, however, refused point blank, and the poor fellow had no choice but to depart,