SUSPICIOUS CONDUCT
WHARF LABOURERS PROTEST AGAINST GERMAN WORKER. SYDNEY, Ist February. Hearing of the evidence in the Neilsen case has been resumed. The president of tho Wharfmen's Union gave evidence of several instances where naturalised Germans had acted suspiciously, and had also constantly stirred up strife, using abusive language towards the British. Wharfmen on the Harbour Trust staff stated that on two occasions the firefloat was called out to extinguish fires on the supply ship Aorangi. Another witness gave evidence that he saw a German drop a lighted cigarette into the wool cargo on board a liner. Judgment was reserved. [August Neilsen is claiming £150 damages from the Wharf Labourers' Union, also a writ of injunction to restrain the union from preventing him obtaining employment as a wharf labourer. ]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27, 2 February 1915, Page 7
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129SUSPICIOUS CONDUCT Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27, 2 February 1915, Page 7
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