The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-09-11
LONG FIGHT IN WEST
AGAINST DIR. DUMBA
Investigations Show the Sup
port That the Strike Plan
Was Receiving.
SOME OF THE ..WORKERS"

DETROIT, Sept. 1O.-An amazing series
legations which nave been conducted
during the last few weeks into Detroit's
industrial conditions and also those OF
the middle West. showing the activities
OF the Austro-H Hungarian Ambassador,
DR.. Dumba and his agents.
Cleveland and Detroit. It appears,
have been centres during the last three
or four months OF his agents in a cam
paign directed toward removing $4,000
Austro-Hungarians from the various
factories In Detroit-the automobile
plants. foundries and machine shops
which have been turning out val NUM-
tons.
Employers OF the Austro-H ungarians
have been fully alive for weeks TO the
perils that lay behind the efforts OF DR..
Dumba and his aSents-more alive In
fact han the agents of the Department
OF Justice. who vainly tried to get at
the facts. Tit employers have matched
ruse with ruse In their efforts to pre-
serve industrial tranquility.
they have been mainly successful
Is due not only to their efforts. but to
the efforts OF various secret agencies
which have COPIED with the activities of
the Austro-Hu Hungarian Embassy.
In addition to DR.. Dumba and Mr..
Archibald the activities OF the follow
Ing persons have been investigated
Dr. Ernest Ludwig. Consul for Austria
Hungary at Cleveland, and Hans
Pelenyi. his Nice-Consul.
William Warm. formerly associate
editor OF the Cleveland SsdbddsdD. the
leading Hungarian language ~newspaper
in the United States. who is said to have
proposed the scheme to tie up munitions
plants and who. his friends insist. de-
serves all the credit for the plan that
Or. Dumba recommended. Mr.. Warm
Is now New York correspondent OF the
~SsdbddsoO and 10 said to be employed in
a confidential capacity by the North
German Lloyd Steamship Company.
u. Zalay, former editor OF the Toledo
Herald. who conferred with Archibald
while the latter VAS on a lecture tour
here n who, IL is said, FIRST brought
William Warns scheme to Archibald's
attention.
O. Hosko, editor OF the Cleveland SEA-
bddsd1, who announced under a two coll
umn head on the first page OF his news
paper. Issued Friday, that not Or
Dunba. but the editors associate, WILL
lam Warm. first conceived "A wholesale
walkout OF Austro-Hungarian munltion
workers.
Julius Fodor. editor Of the Magyar
tJsdg Hungarian News) OF Delray, a
Detroit suburb. who insisted to-day that
DIR. Dumba was In error when he wrote
to Vienna that he had subsidized
various Hungarian ~ewspaper TO call
on their readers to quit working in
munitions plants.
such All offer OF subsidy would have
been unnecessary" declared ex-Editor
Zalay, while Fodo nodded assent. w
would do 1t as a patriotic duty. not FOR
money"
81 know Warm well. continued Zalay.
H wrote the play Blood Is Thicker
Than Water which he produced
throughout country. He showed IL in
Detroit and | personally introduced him
to Mr.. Archibald when he (Archibald)
was delivering his lecture here"
Soon after Warm met Archibald the
former. II is declared. had many confer
ences with Consul-General Ludwig in
Cleveland. The treason decree then
appeared in the SEdbddsuo and other
Hungarian language journals.
About the time the decree was pub-
llshed industrial unrest was made mani
fest to employers in war munitions
plants in territory in which these
newspapers circulated. Henry J. Hinde
was one OF the first to act. He engaged
the services OF "A Detroit secret agency
TO ascertain conditions in his plant.
which has a large output OF shrapnel
castings and machinery for COMPRISING
them. The plant has large British con-
tracts.
Two operatives from this agency.
Hindc says, went to work on the case.
They reported that there was little un-
rest among his employees, but soon after
the foreigners left the plant.
one Of those who at this time op-
posed Ambassador Dumba'I decree" was
Count Stanislaus. won Waleski of Detroit.
This young soldier of fortune sought to
prevent dissatisfaction among Austrians
and Hungarians. Under the designation
Of "k-l0" he investigated Detroit fac
tories and made secret reports on the
conditions. Three weeks & he con-
fessed TO a friend that due to threats
made against him by foreigners he
would leave Detroit. He has since re-
turned.