Amongst those boys in the trenches whom they were accused of starving were scores of their own comrades, the sons of many lumpers, and husbands and brothers of lumpers’ wives. History has disproved the first infamous calumny the second needed no refutation. For this action they were declared disloyalists and pro-Germans, and accused of starving the boys in the trenches. The Fremantle lumpers had been advised that flour so consigned was finding its way into Germany, and refused to load the ship. On Augthe Empire was engaged in a life and death struggle, a cargo of flour was to be lifted at Fremantle by the Singapore liner Minderoo and destined for a Dutch settlement. The genesis of the 1919 crisis is to be found in the wharf trouble of 1917.
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