Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-24

ID periai Germany to foment a strike
81 fhe loneshorenlen on the Atlantic ana
Pacific sea coasts as means or pre-
'syentinE shipments of supplies and ulu-
nttions to the Allies, the secret Service
A had been continually on the alert against
other attempts to cause trouble in va
rfous branches of organized labor. IN
y. this work the unions of America had
- >k(ven more than a hearty cooperation.
/. Committees of members we're appointed
' - confer with the Secret Service to learn
\. the best means of detecting efforts OF
Germsn agents TO interfere with any lit
Sustry by agitation among the wo, kers
I American labor proved Itself loEaA 10
n the core.
Germany had made numerous attempts
to create havoc in the American manu-
featuring plants by using various meth
DDS to entice workingmen away from
their daily tasks. In many instances
e the old methods of agitation against con-
iitions were tried. Subtler attacks were
employed elsewhere. Tempting offers of
y iemployment at their trade in distant
cities, with transportation paid. were
B made on condition that sutt1cient num-
her OF workmen would join the migrat-
q ing colony. Cunningly worded stories
OF fictitious dangers which confronted
Workers in various occupations were m.
ferted in printed matter which was de
y riened to reach wives, mothers ana
eweetbearts. hut every effort failed be
n cause of the intense loyalty OF the
unions,
aftSf Report anN1nlns winch NtdS
x two on more workingmen to leave ths
\ place where they are employed nov.
n was the request made BY the oecrrI
~service. Members Of The ,oHaacs spec,at com- dn-
fnittees, by ever watchful vigilance oe
tected the efforts of Germany at the!r
Z Inception.
complaints against conditions were
usually proved groundless by the seGret
> Service In cases where the working
man were not receiving fair treatment
word to the owner was usually sutilciehC
to correct the trouble, for the manulaG- T.,
X furers had combined with the WORKERS III
B nreventing Germany from being success
4 fulg in its plotting. The ideal conditions
which existed at distant FSa points ii,n.irs were
4 spired stories of dangers existing through
4 the handling of various substances We're
R denied by authoritative sources which
& could leave no doubt in the mind oil the
Ssm;iies cf the workers This was the
3 work which the Secret Service had peeh
doing in conjunction with labor since
the attempt TO foment the lonsshore-
mer's strike had been batfted. 49,
harrison Grant, president of the
z t.riu1inology Club, and Dixie Mason, the
pretty little Secret Service opera'isve' ave
80 cusscd reports of
Ceases these activities of
DemoraIiys Germ n II agents
Labor Won Bernstorl, anu
his aides had fol-
lowed the ira
v ditionaI course in each effort, using
M4m OerS
81 America TO do the actual work or en-
M ticement or intimidation. Then this de-
f partment Of activity against America ny
x, the Huns suddenly stopped, Agents Tor
~. She Kaiser nc longer sought member
( ships in unions control of labor papers
-~~.wus relinuuished by Or. Heinrich Al
bert the paymasster as.t OF the Spy Sad 5ri ad
initted defeat through the loyalty OF the
American workingnan.
/B1t neither Grant nor Dixie was & De,
Z esNed. Through the wireless IN % me
~ Criminology Club, and through phono'
3 Eruphic attachments at other stations
conndential messages between the WI,
s helmstrasse and the Imperial German
-of the air and later the secrets OF the
coded messages were decipnereo
Through these Grant and pixie notr
knew that Germanys demands for, sue
cessful decentralization of American LABOR
4 had become more and more insistent a!
4 efforts of the spy army met with fallur'
t after failure Then the demands SUD
denly ceased without any ,apparen
reason and the president of the rim
inology Club and the young Secre
Service operative. through heds theH Hsi Fsi
that Won Bernstorff had sent a writer
report to Berlin g Of some plot Sven mntS' fo
" ie prosecution and fulf1llment'
.$ so no vigilance was relaxed Th
. labor committees were warned agsins
M falling into a false feeling of securit!
because of the apparent inactivity %
Imperial Germany. Many months o
watchful waiting followed, and thei
came the first rumblings OF storm
n which threatened the whole existence
tl labor. storm which actually accom-
Z. b1ished the destruction or millions
dollars worth of wheat and other cerea
supplies.
1t was the outbreak of the Industrls
Workers OF the World, an organizatio
III which IL more readily recognized by II
fnitials--I W. w, formed originally b
n = crack Drained illogical theorist to ag
i}5 tate the doctrine that worker is entitle
"a the gross proceeds Of his labor, and
attracted to its membership radica
IRON, all over the world. 1t always pr'
,5 eeeded on the line of anarchism-d'
y ptruction to anything which impeded Il
progress. The cry of higher and bette
MI wages attracted great many worhins
this country, but they soon droppe
away The utter absurdity of theor
that a laborer could increase his eari
fngs by insisting that he receive ever!
g thing that he produced, without al
~ thought of the workingman who ha
uroduced the tools and the material vii
III which he worked, soon stopped
rs growth of the membership, and then
sudden slump in the number OF supper
ers until only professional agitato
A M could be found in the organization EV'
these soon deserted, for they agltat,
t only for the money that there was to
~ aeuuired and the treasury OF the J.
~ W was depleted 10 point where II WI
no longer a shining target for the gre,
of the professional trouble maker, WI
fot,nd more profitable organizations els
where
RI Then the w W. suddenly scquir
npparently unlimited money from soi
AZ 9ource. Agitators from everyWhe
*& Il r--S focked 10 it's stan
E@ ards. which Wi
4l1& New Plan the surest sign tn
@t for Labor the treasury w
~ Il mfssrs nIsntlon well filled The
Z<r<f were indicatio
[|z'5'l also that some sa
u norsou had planned out a definite car
u4fgn for the organization TO follt
Hnder the guise of agitating only I
n theory for which it stood. Groups or
W W. workers appeared in industri
ofuters In every part of the COUNT
t 31hey harangued against the conscri
4 b. 3ton Of British and French labor as IN
a; nfterward argued for the resistance
~ & The draft in America. They pleaded !
s. ~ ~~neral strikes everywhere, ostensit
c - means of getting for the worE
I'll the wealth he produced. IN eve
may they played the part which !
y g. S11rlal Germany had attempted, but h
36i1od because of the inability or
kmbers OF the spy army 10 inspire I
Ulldencs of the American workers.
ma /. w w was different in meth
1n the Individual Hun spies. II h
- Its ranks to workers. II exhibit
|&roll -filled treasury and offered &C
" Many OF the lazier and reckl