Fat's Fiction Factory.

NZ Truth, Issue 443, 13 December 1913, Page 2

Fat's Fiction Factory.

Expeditious Wharfies— Load Boat Before Arrival.

"They need a long spoon who sup iwt.th tho dovil." Never was the truth of tho old ndago hotter illustrated than during the present ! Waterside trouble. Thcro If* not the slightest doubt that the t "JBvening Post" and tho ''Dominion" have been supping with tho devil more or leas since tho lock-out began, as is quite evident even from a cursory ; glance at their strike news columns. According to tho veractty of the veri dnnt youncr lio-ons of these two organs <>f tho OctupuH, everything la '■■ the waterfront garden is lovely. *>hips. which it haw tftken flvo days tint! overtime tv load — that m normal times arc lo«c!i>d Jn three dnvn by 'tho old enn^fi— -iro «l«*clftr<?<l to hnvo l>een loaded tv record time, "The members of tho n«m* vmlon ncquittlnsf them«elvi?« excullrntly." and much more to tho nxmc ortoct. "Truth's" rep., nt tho risk of ht« anatomy, pay« almost it daily or nightly visit to tho wharves, lie talka with ofl\-

cials and with so-called Arbitration unionists. He knows. a thing or two about shipping- and the coming and going of vessels, not only m the coastal, but the-' overseas, trade, and he knows that seventy per cent, of the statements made concerning the shipping and unshipping of cargo are absolutely without foundation m fact. We have said seventy per cent., but we want to say more,, and what we. 'say we can prove. In the case of some ships, not seventy per cent., but the lull hundred per cent., of the statements made are manufactured—that is. are deliberate, lies. As a proof of our assertion, take the following paragraph from the "Evening Post" of Friday last:— TO SAIL, FOR LONDON. Excellent work has been done m loading the Tyser steamer Norehana m Wellington, and she was to-day practically a full ship. Her departure for London has been fixed for Monday next. , She takes Home a large quantity of wool and frozen meat. What are the facts ? At the time that paragraph appeared m the "Evening Post"— 3..lo p.m. Friday, December s—the5 — the Nerehana was not a "practically full ship." At that hour on Friday, December 's, • there had been no attempt made to begin to ship cargo lying at Wellington wharves for the Nerehana. Why ? ; For the simple, reason that at> 3.30 *p.m. on the day m question the Nerehana waSn't even m. Wellington Harbor » n To be exact, the Nere« hana arrived m Wellington from Napier at 5.35 p.m. on ' Friday, December 5, : exactly twp hours and five minutes after the "Evening Post*' had declared the Arbitrotidnists had "practically" completed shipping her cargo ' I-/ This is but \one of the many similar "frame-ups" which appear m the Pluto press from day to day, and should open the eyes of the public to the dirty dodgery of .the friends of Fat to bolster up a roiteri. cause. \ .*"'.. ./-