UNITED STATES.
THE GERMAN WAY. TALE OF INTRIGUE UNFOLDED. Received Oct. 1, 7.35 p.m. London, Oct. 1. The Freeman's Journal details German plans for promoting strikes in America. Matthew Cummings, a Bostonian, approached William Dempsey, secretary of the Atlantic Longshoremen's Union, suggesting that strikers be paid ten dollars a week. He considered that a six weeks' strike would be sufficient, and as a bait to the leaders he suggested they give the workmen only live dollars, the leaders to pocket the balance. Cummings communicated with .T. O'Connor, the Longshoremen's Union president and an Irish labor leader, who led him on. Cummings refused to state who was his principal, but said he could raise 327,000 dollars. O'Connor had no doubt that the principal was Count von Dernburg. Cummings said that the scheme was to tie up shipping on the Atlantic coast, and by thus crippling the Allies assure Germany's success. O'Connor told the whole story to United States officials, and the conspiracy was defeated. Cummings was previously connected with political intrigue in Ireland.
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 October 1915, Page 5
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