The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-09-28

toPuto, Tor years AZ the neaO OF . uoWD-
paper organization In England.
He has q personal reason to b very
bitter against England. because two
years ago tthis letter appears to have
been written about June !. 1913. which
would make the date referred to the
was made against him over commercial
matters In Great Britain. and II vas
only by appealing to the United States
department Of state and . writ OF habeAa
corpus before the lord chief Justice Of
England that he escaped successfully.
He was In England and France
At the outbreak of the war: he has ac-
cess to the great sources Of British ana
French offlcial information. He wants TO
20 eeross to Europe and serve secretly
tor Germany"
Hsrs's Pseudo Labor Agency.
Closely related to and to soms extent
under the guidance Of Won Igsl was the
German and ro-Hungarian labor
Information and relief bureau. with
central headauarters at lss Liberty
Cleveland. Detroit Bridgeport. Pitts
burgh. Philadelphia and Chicago. The
head OF this enterprise was Hans Lie
bau. from whom II took its familiar1y
accepted name Of the 'Liebau Employ
ment agency"
That the Austro- Hungarian embassy
had taken ofncial cogniEancs Of the bu-
reau 10 disclosed In the letter written
by the ambassador to the Austro-Hun
garian minister for foreign anairs
James F. J. Archibald by the British
authorities August 80. 1918.
After Ammunition Plants.
In this letter the ambassador stated
1T 10 my impression that we can dis
organise and hold up for months. " not
mutations In Bethlehem and the middle
West. which. in the opinion Of the Ger
man military attache. 10 OF importance
and amply outweighs the comparative
" small expenditure Of money involved:
but even II the strikes do not come OF
II 10 probable that We should sxtort
under pressure of circumstances more
favorable conditions of labor for our
poor. downtrodden fellow countrymen.
80 far as German workmen are
found in the skilled hands, means of
leaving will be provided Immediately
for them. Besides this. . private Ger
man employment once has been estab-
lishsd which provides employment for
their places. and II II already workins
we'll We shall also join In. and the
widest support 10 assured u.s."
The following representations on be-
half OF the bureaus efficiency were
made. under date of March "a. 1916. in
a letter to the German ambassador. Won
Bernstorff
Engineers and persons in the better
class OF positions. and who had means
of their own were persuaded by the
propaganda of the bureau to leave war
material factorieG"
Cause Of Strikes.
The report comments with uncon-
cealed amusement upon the fact that
munitions concerns innocently wrote the
bureau for workmen (which. of course.
were not furnished) and continues in
reviewing later conditions in the NUM-
tions industry
THE commercial employment bureaus
ployed technicians. Many dis
turbances and suspensions which war
material factories have had to suffer
and which 1t was not always possible
to remove quickly. but which. on the
contrary. often led to long strikes
may be attributed to the energetic
propaganda of the employment bureau"
Won Igefs close connection with the
enterprise IL indicated by a number of
items. For example, there Is a nota-
ton to the effect that H. Samson had
esta blished a Liebau branch Office in
Detroit an entry of $50 paid to Dr. Max
Niven of Chicago in February. 1913. for
the labor fund" and an inquiry ad-
dressed by a bureau official to Won Isel
asking, whether the Bosch magnetic
works manufactured fuses for shells.
the bureau having evidently been ap-
piled to for workmen for the Bosch
plant The reply. In the negative.
stated that the company was "univer-
for the Germans"
John Dewey and "irish Revolution"
Several lines of communication be-
tween the German diplomatic service
and the Irish revolutionary movement
are indicated in the captured docu-
now editor of the Gaelic American a
violent anti British paper. was one of
the active agents OF this connection.
Significant entries appear here and
there; references to msssagss from the
German embassy at Warrington and
the German consulate At New York;
mention of q secret code to he employed
In communicating with him and of .
cipher Devoy;" also . notation. the
details Of which remain undiscovered.
facture hand grenades"
Dewey 1t was who acted. for . time at
least, AZ go-betwesn for the German
secret service dealings with Sir Roger
Easement. executed by the British for
treason. There are several references
to money and messages for Sir Roger
Easement, or, more briefly "R. c." and
one record of q check for 81 900 for Case
ment, evidently handled by Dewey.
Letters to eernstorfS.
Devoy's intimate connection with the
German cause 10 disclosed in two letters
to Ambassador Won Bernstorn, the texts
of which follow:
New York, April .. 1915.
The following communication from
confidential man John Dewey was duly
transmitted:
Letter dated March q. delayed by
censor. seems conclusive that first mes
senger arrived safe with proposal to send
supplies and that cable was suppressed.
Second also safe. Third. with change of
plans, due about April Is.
John Dewey further requests that the
following telegram be dispatched to Sir
Roger Easement:
mo letter now possible. All funds
sent home. Sister and M. . family we'll"
Should Sir Roger be absent or I'll, then
]. d. requests that the telegram be de-
liversd to John Monteith.
X. N St.
To His Excellsncy. the imperial Ambas-
sador, Count Won Bsrnstorn. Washinng-