THE "BLACK" SHIP.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14540, 18 October 1917, Page 2

THE "BLACK" SHIP.

MEN WILLING TO UNLOAD

DRUGS

In roference to the statement in Par- ! liame.ntan xegard to the .siiip held up at .We'Uington (says the "N.Z".- Times"), Mv J. G. Bruce, ■ sccretmy- of tiie Waterside Workers' Union, states that this was .the .first intimation that drugs were aboard or wove urgently required.; He considers it a strange -filing, if the drugs were urgently required, "that the men did not know of this tiii the ques-, tion was asked in Parliament. j The executive oj the union is willing! to give the Government and the ship*': ping company any assistance to get, the cases of drugs out of the ship, ov. ' the following condition: — That a special insurance is provided for the; men who get the .cases out, m the event of their being injured by bombs or other explosives. The executive has no wisii but to facilitate the despatch of the drugs to their destination and is willing to do its besfc to unload them, proVidei! all proper steps are-taken ..to' insure the mon against possible danger m liandling the cargo.