The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-09-23

tent, inasmuch as he had been repeat
cdly duped. Obviously the manage
ment of the concern attaches impor-
lance to creating a belief that all pro-
jectiles being produced were intonoed
for the United States Government"
This, he comments, is belied by the
presence of foreign Government in
spectorL
In these activities there was
course, nothing illegal. DR.. Otto is
still practicing his profession in AL
lentown. He claims to be an Amer
lean citizen, though his claim is not
clear, and declares himself thorough
ly loyal to this country.
Closely related to and to some ex-
tent under the guidance Of Won Igei
was the German and Austro-Hungar-
ian Labor Information and Relief Blu
| Liberty Street, New York City, and
branches in Cleveland, Detroit, Pitts
burgh, Bridgeport, Philadelphia, and
| Chicago. The head Of this enterprise
was Hans Liebau, from whom it took
| its Familiarity accepted name of the
| Liebau Employment Agency" Dur
| ing the trying days which followed
the arrest of the Welland Canal con-
| spirators It was unwaveringly assert
ed that the Liebau concern was a
bona fide employment agency end
nothing else, with no object other
thai to secure positions for German,
Austrian and Hungarian workmen
seeking employment. That was for
pers the truth appears, brought out
Dy the refusal of the Austro- Hun
| garan embassy to continue its sub
| sides to the bureau
That the Austro Hungarian en-
bassy had taken official cognizance of
the bureau previously, however, is
disclosed in the letter written by the
ambassador to the Austro- Hungarian
minister for foreign affairs which was
found in the possession of James T.
j. Archibald by the British authorities
August so, 1915. In this letter the
ambassador stated:
1T is my impression that we can
disorganize and hold up for months,
ii not entirely prevent, the manufac
ture of munitions in Bethlehem and
the Middle West, which, in the opin-
ion of the German military attache,
is of importance and amply outwe'~
the comparatively small expenditure
of money involved; but even if the
strikes do not come off it is probable
that we should eXtort, under pressure
of circumstances, more favorable con-
ditions of labor for our poor down
trodden fellow countrymen. So far as
| German workmen are found in the
skilled hands, means of leaving will
be provided Immediately for them.
Besides this, private German en-
ployment office has been established
which provides employment for per-
sons who have voluntarily given up
their places, and it is already working
we'll. We shall also join in, and the
widest support is assured US
The following representations on
half of the bureaus efficiency We're
made, under date of March "a, 1916,
in a letter to the German ambassador,
Won Bernstorff.
Engineers and persons in the bet
ter class of positions, and who had
means of their own, were persuaded
by the propaganda of the bureau to
leave war-material factories"
The report comments with uncon-
cealcd amusement upon the fact that
munitions concerns innocently wrote
the bureau for workmen (Which, of
course, were not furnished) and con-
tinues in reviewing later conditions in
the munitions industry.
"The commercial employment bu-
reaus of the country have no supply
of unemployed technicians.
Many disturbances and suspensions
which war material factories have
had to suffer and which it was not al
ways possible to remove quickly. but
which, on the contrary, often lead to
long strikes, may be attributed to the
energetic propaganda of the employ
ment bureau"
Il
enterprise is indicated by a number
of items. For example, there is a
notation to the effect that Fl. Hanson
had established a Liebau branch of
flee in Detroit, an entry of so paid
to a Dr. Max Niven, of Chicago, in
February, 1916, for the "labor fund"
and an inquiry addressed by a bureau
official to Won Igel, asking whether
the Bosch Magnetic Works manufac-
tured fuses for shells, the bureau hav-
ing evidently been applied to for
workmen for the Bosch plant, The
reply, in the negative, stated that the
company was universally known for
it's frie~" attitude for the Ger
mans"
Several lines of communication be-
tween the German diplomatic service
and the Irish revolutionary movement
are indicated in the captured docu-
ments. John Dewey, of New York
City, now editor of the Gaelic Ameri-
can, violent anti-British paper, was
one of the active agents of this con-
nection. Significant entries appear
here and there; references to mes
sages from the German Embassy at
Washington and the German consul
ate at New York; mention of secret
code to be employed in communicat-
ing with him and of a scipher Dewey;
also a notation, the details of which
remain undiscovered, concerning
Communication of manufacture hand