CARGO BROACHING.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12767, 13 April 1910, Page 2

CARGO BROACHING.

STARTLING ALLEGATIONS AT

SYDNEY

[Press Association — Copybight.]

(Received April 12, 11 p.m.) Sydney, April 12. Some startling allegations were made in a case in which a wharf labourer was charged with stealing cargo from the steamer Moldavia. Accused indicated that there was a wholesale system of cargo biaachiug, and he was compelled to take part or incur the enmity of his fellow workers. He had left Melbourne to escape. the practice, but found it just as 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 cargo broaching was a common practice. 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.