Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-10-02

England that he escaped successfDllv
He was In England and France
at the outbreak of the war: he has ac-
cess to the great sources of British and
French official information. He wants to
go across to Europe and serve secretly
Tor Germany"
Here's Pseudo Labor Agency.
Closely related to and to some extent
under the guidance of Won Igel was The
German and Austro- Hunga rian labor
information and relief bureau with
central headquarters at 1876 Liberty
street, New York city and branches in
cleveland. Detroit, Bridgeport Pitts
burgh. Philadelphia and Chicago. The
mead OF this enterprise was Hans Lie
pau from whom 1t took its Familiarity
| accepted name of the 'Iiebau Employ
! ment agency"
Ihat the Austro-H Hungarian embassy
had taken official eognizance of the h1,.
reau is disclosed in the letter written
by the ambassador to the Austro-Hun-
garlah minister for foreign affairs
James F. j. Archibald nv the BritiSb
authorities August go 1915.
After Ammunition Plants
In this letter the ambassador stated.
II IS my impression that we can dis
organize and hold up for months If not
entirely prevent, the manufact,,r ot
munitions in Bethlehem and the middle
west winch, in the opinion of the Ger
man military attache, is of Importance
ana amply outweighs the comparative
~ small expenditure of money involved
put even II the strikes do not come off
~ Is PROBABLE that we should extort
undef pressure of circumstances mora
favorable conditions of labor for onr
poor downtrodden fellow countrymen
30 lar as German workmen are
found in the skilled hands, means Of
leaving will be provided immediately
Tor them. Besides this. a private Ger
man employment Office has been estab-
hshed which provides employment for
persons who have voluntarily given IN
their places, and it is already WORKING
well. We shall also join in, and the
Wloest support is assured u.s."
Inc Following representations on be-
haII OF the bureaus efficiency were
made, under date of March "a, 1916. in
letter to the German ambassador, Won
Bernstorn
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 factories"
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 muni-
lions industry.
The commercial employment bureaus
OF the country have no supply of uner1-
pIoyed technlclans. 49,. Many dis
turbances and suspensions which war
material factories have had to suffer
and which it 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 1gefs close connection with the
enterprise is indicated by a number of
items. For example, there is a nota-
ton to the effect that H. Samson had
established Liebau branch office in
Detroit, an entry of $50 paid to DR. Max
Niven of Chicago in February 1918, for
the labor fund" and an inquiry adj
dressed by bureau official to Won Igel.
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-
sally known for its friendly attitude
for the Germans"
John Dewey and "Irish Revolution"
Several lines of communication he
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 American, a
violent anti-British paper, was one of
the active agents of this connection.
Significant entries appear here and
there; references to messages from the
German embassy at Washington and
the German consulate at New York:
mention of a secret code to be en- oloyed
in communicating with him and of a
cipher Dewey" also a notation, the
details of which remain undiscovered
communication re manu-
facture hand grenades."
Dewey it was who acted, for time at
least as go-between for the German
secret service dealings with Sir Roger
Easement, executed ny 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 a check for $1,000 for Case
ment, evidently handled by Dewey.
Letters to Bernstorff.
Devoy's intimate connection with the /
German cause is disclosed in two letters |
to Ambassador Won Bernstorff, the texts |
Of which follow:
NC" 1OIh, april o, 1870
The following communication from |
confidential man John Dewey was duly
transmitted:
Letter dated March o. 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 To-"
John Dewey further requests that the |
friIor7in0 he IN Cir
Roger Easement:
mo letter now possible. All funds
sent home. Sister and MS family WELL"
Should Sir Roger be absent or Ill, then
J. d. requests that the telegram be de-
ivered to John Monteith.
K. N. st.
To His Excellency, the Imperial Ambas-
sador, Count Won Bernstorff, Washing
ton. D. C.
New York, April Is, 1916.
Herewith inclosed report re-
ceived by us today from John Dewey. |
Kindly order further steps to be taken.
The important parts of the report were
sent there today per telegram. Is. copy)
To the Imperial Ambassador, Count Won
Bernstorff, Washington, D. c."
As to arrest of Roger Easement.
In view of the involvement of these
prominent Irish-American leaders in the
Easement plot and its German ramihca-
tons, it is little to be wondered at that
they should have endeavored to Shout
der upon the American government the
for the arrest of Easement.
The Gaelic-American, Devoy's paper, and
the sympathetic German-American press
charged this government with having, on
the strength of information obtained from
the seized Won Igel papers, advised the
British government of the revolutionary
plot and Easements part therein.
The department of state and the de-
oartInent of justice promptly refuted the
charges. When the Won Igel papers
were seized in New York the district
attorney and his assistants busted them
selves in a search for information to
sustain the indictments which they had
obtained against Won Igel, and over
looked for the time being the great mass
Of other evidence which pointed ihcrim-
to others.
Want CohaIan Senator.
Department of justice officials admit
that the papers relating to Easement
were sent to Washington the night be-
fore Easements arrest was reported, |