Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-08

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 Ed from the very beginning establish ed connections with anarchists and the revolutionary elements of labor While the publicity branch of the Ger man opaganda-instituted by Dr. Bernhard Dernburgl and directed se- cretly by Dr. William Bayard Hale ! endeavOred by covert and cunning methods, and through subsidized but apparently American organizations, to delude American sentiment into de-
 manding an embargo on the shipment of arms and war supplies to the Allies.
 the secret service branch of German activity under vOn Papen at the same time undertook to achieve the same
 result by the methods of the l. W. W. | MunitiOn plants were destroyed, ships blown up and numberless lives lost. | Germany, employing anarchistic mal- lcontents, waged war against us within
 the confines of our OwR shores.
 And that continues to this day | Simultaneous with furthering pacifist propaganda through mouthing radicals academic pacifists and the Socialist Party. German agents according to fed eral authorities, since the United | States entered the war have carried
 on a systematic campaign of sabotage
 for the destruction of war supplies
 and the hampering of the war work
 of the nation. Among the l. w w.,
 whose ultimate objects are the same as those of the EOlsheviki, and among
 other anarchistic elements, German
 agents, Government officials declare. have found convenient instruments for
 the continuance of their fell work in
 the United States.
 At the very time that Lenine and i Trotzky, financed by German funds,
 were plotting to overthrow the Keren- sky government in Russia, the Rus
 sian Bolsheviki were in correspond
 ence with the I. W. W. leaders here,"
 continues Mir Harre. According to letters seized by the government and read al the |. w w. trial in Chicago on ! May 9. the Bolshevilli in Russia and
 the I. w. w. here were plotting togeth-
 CT in seditiOus conspiracy to take con trOl of the industry of both nations.
 At the Very time that they were | launched on their enterprise to turn Russia and the great Russian people
 over to the Prussian plunderbund, the Bclshevid leaders wrote letters urging
 the immediate shipment of l. W. W. | Literature to Russia One of the lead | ing Bolshevilsi. in a letter dated Aug l ust 25, 1917, informed theI w W. in America that they very soon expected
 to have a Russian administration of
 the l. ". w To witness what an l. w. w. administration means, behold
 Russial s
 "In their opposition to the war the l l. W. W. have been daringly OutspOken Writing to William D. Haywood from Seattle, Washington, August 2, 1917,
 James Rowan, for the Strike Commit
 tee,' declared: We have the good
 will of the German people here and we feel sure that they are in sympathy with our cause. We do not call them Germans, however, but refer to them
 the same as others, as Fellow Work CTS. We are going to carry out points
 if we have to stop every industry on the Pacific coast. We did not declare war and we have not consented to the working man giving up his liberties and being drafted
 "Is it to be wondered at that the II. W. W. Strike Committee at Seattle | felt justified in saying: We have the good will of the German people here | and we feel that they are in sympathy | with our cause? Could anyone pos | sibly doubt that the l. W. W. did have | the good will Of all Germans, whether here or in the German Empire? The | pertinent question is whether the Ger fr,r1I of mere good will In the trial of the | l. w. W's at Chicago, charged with l seditious conspiracy, evidence was in- troduced on May 2. 1918. showing that | the monetary receipts of the l. w. w. 1 swelled amazingly after the declara- | ton of war. and at a ratio striSingly ! in proportion to its increasing activi- | ties to obstruct the war and oppose | the selective draft. A statenient show ed that from early in April 1917, until | September 1, 1917, the period covered | by the indictment. the total receipts at | I. W. w. headquarters amounted to | S271, ,220.50. The increase in receipts | rose from S25.O4S.S1 in April. to SS6. 4 S09.26 in August Initiation fee re- | ceipts in April amounted to S5,439.25: | by July they had mounted to S20.670.25 | The income from mysterious other | sources was set down as $11,13974 in Il April, and S44,1O3.62 in August From what more than friendly interest came | this generous increase Of S61.760 in | funds in five months? The govern ment contends that it was due almost ] wholly to the l. W. W's alleged disloy Il al campaign It is known that agents | of the German government were never stinted in resources for the promoting Il of various kinds of propaganda. spy | work and destruction. to the interest Il of their Imperial masters. and after the breaking off of diplomatic rela- tions and the return to Germany Of Count vOn BernstOrff. there is evi- dence that sums of vast proportion had been left in the country for pur-