The Colorado statesman., 1917-09-29

repute, for years at the head or news
paper organization in England.
He has n personal reason to be very
bitter against England. because two
years ago Cthis letter appears to have
been written about June /, 1915 which
would make the date referred to the
early summer of 1919 n certain attack
was made against him over commercial
matters In Great Britain, and II was
only by appealing to the United States
department of state and a writ of habeas
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 and
French official Information. He wants to
go across to Europe and serve secretly
for Germany"
Here's Pseudo Labor Agency.
Closely related to and to some extent
under the guidance of Won Igel was the
German and Austro- Hungarian 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
head of this enterprise was Hans Lie
bau. from whom IL took its Familiarity
accepted name of the "Liebau Employ
ment agency"
That the Austro- Hungarian embassy
had taken official cognlzance of the bu-
reau is disclosed in the letter written
by the ambassador to the Austro- Hun
garlan minister for foreign affairs
which was found in the possession of
James f. ]. Archibald by the British
authorities August 80. 1915.
After Ammunition Plants.
In this letter the ambassador stated:
1T is my impression that we can dis
organize and hold up for months, IL not
entirely prevent. the manufacture of
munitions in Bethlehem and the middle
West. which. in the opinion of the Ger
man military attache. is of Importance
and amply outweighs the comparative
ly small expenditure of money involved;
but even II the strikes do not come off
1t Is probable that we should extort
under pressure of circumstances. more
favorable conditions of labor for our
poor. downtrodden fellow countrymen.
so far as German workmen
found in the skilled hands. means OF
leaving will be provided Immediately
for them. Besides this. private Ger
man employment office has been estab-
lished which provides employment for
persons who have voluntarily given up
their places, and 1t is already working
well. We shall also join in. and the
widest support is 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 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-
tions industry.
THE commercial employment bureaus
of the country have no supply of unem-
ployed technicians. Many dis
turbances and suspensions which war
material factories have had to suffer
and which II was not always possible
to remove quickly, but which. on the
contrary. often led to long strikes
may be attributed to the energetic
propag ganda OF the employment bureau"
Won 1gelS close connection with the
enterprise is indicated by a number of
items. For example. there is a nota-
tion to the effect that H. Samson had
established a Liebau branch office in
Detroit. an entry of $50 paid to DIR. Max
Niven of Chicago in February, 1913. for
the labor fund" and an inquiry ad-
dressed by a 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 it's friendly attitude
for the Germans"
John Devoy and mrish Revolution"
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 American.
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 secret code to he employed
in communicating with him and of a
cipher Devoy;" also notation. the
details of which remain undiscovered,
concerning Communication re manu-
facture hand grenades."
Dewey 1t was who acted, for time at
least as go-between for the German
secret service dealings with Sir Roger
Easement, executed by the British for
treason. There several references
to money and messages for Sir Roger
Easement, or. more briefly 'R. c." and
one record of check for $1,000 for Case
ment, evidently handled by Dewey.
Letters to Rernstorff.
Devoy's intimate connection with the
German cause is disclosed in two letters
to Ambassador Won Bernstorff. the texts
OF which follow:
New York, April 8, 1916
The following communication from
confidential man John Dewey was duly
transmitted:
Letter dated March %, delayed by
censor seems conclusive that first mes
sengcr arrived safe with proposal to send
supplies and that cable was suppressed.
Second also safe. Third with change of
plans due about April 15'
John Dewey further requests that the
following telegram be dispatched TO Sir
Roger Easement:
no letter now possible. All funds
sent home. Sister and MS family we'll"
Should Sir Roger be absent or ILL., then
]. d. requests that the telegram be de-
livered to John Monteith.
X. N. st.
To His Excellency, the Imperial Ambas-
sador. Count Won Bernstorff WashinnG-