BROACHING CARGO.
SOME STARTLING STATEMENTS.
United Proas Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright Received April 12, 11.18 p.m. SYDNEY, April 12.
Some startling allegations were made in a case in which a wharf labourer was charged with stealing ca v go from the steamer Moldavia. The accused indicated that there was a wholesale system of broaching cargo. He was compelled to take pait or incur the enmity of his fellow workers. He Dad left Melbourne to escape the practice, but found it just atf rife in Sydney. He would not name the men implicated "with him, as his life would not be safe. A stevedore stated in evidence that broaching wa3 a common practice. T.iere were a large number of men encaged in it, but as they stuck to each other it, was almost impossible to sheet home a conviction.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10017, 13 April 1910, Page 5
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138BROACHING CARGO. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10017, 13 April 1910, Page 5
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