CARGO-BROACHING
>■ SYDNEY, April 12. Some startling ' allegations were made to-day in a case in which a wharf labourer was charged! with stealing cargo from the steame<r Moldavia.. The accused indicated that there was a wholesale system of broaching cargo. ' He said he was compelled to take part or incur the enmity of his fellow workers. He had left Melbourne to escape from the practice, but found it just as rife in Sydney. He would not name the men who were implicated with him, as his life would not be safe. A stevedore stated in evidence that broaching cargo was a common practice, and a large number of men were engaged in it, but as they stuck to each other It was almost impossible to sheet home a conviction.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2927, 20 April 1910, Page 25
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128CARGO-BROACHING Otago Witness, Issue 2927, 20 April 1910, Page 25
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