GERMAN METHODS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144850, 30 November 1915, Page 5

GERMAN METHODS.

TO CREATE INDUSTRIAL STRIFE.

Tlio Agent-General has forwarded to tho Premier a translated copy of the Austrian and German papers found in possession of rile war correspondent Archibald, whom tho British arrested The papers, implicate tho Austrian Ambassador at Washington in a plot to disorganise the manufacture ot munitions m the .United States. Dr. Dnmha’s dispatches to the Austro-Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs disclose deliberate plans tor bribery and corruption on a large .scale. The most striking passages, which ap-. pear in a dispatch dated New York,. August '2O, are as .follows;—“Mr. Arcuibald, who is well known your Excellency, leaves to-day at 12 o’clock on board rno Rotterdam for Berlin and Vienna. ' I take this rare and- safe opportunity of warmly recommending the proposals to your Excellency’s favourable consideration. It is my impression that wo can disorgam.se and Hold up lor months, if not entirely prevent, the manufacture of munitions m Bethlehem and _ the Middle West which, in the opinion of- tho German military attache, is of great importance and amply outweighs the comparatively small expenditure of money involved. “To Bethlehem must bo sent as many reliable Hungarian and German workmen as I can lay my hands on who will join the factories and begin their work in secret among their fellow-workmen. For this purpose 1 have my men turners in steel work. Wo must send an organiser, who, in tho interests of the union, will begin the business in his own way. We must also send socalled ‘soap-box’ orators who will know, and so start a useful agitation. Wo shall want money for popular meetings, and possibly for organising picnics. In general, the same applies to the Middle West. 1 am thinking of Pittsburg and Cleveland in tho first instance, as to which I could give details only if I were to return and spend at least a few days there. “I have already shown that much can be done with the newspapers. Wo must stir up men’s feelings. In Bethlehem a sensation was caused by the articles which appeared at tho lime of tho-strike at Bridgeport, and_ they brought Bethlehem into the affair. It is evident that to. start a movement from which serious results can he expected requires a sufficiency of money at tho very start. Tho extent of subsequent expenditure for the most part depends on the work effected. For example, the newspapers must not receive the whole of the sum intended for them all at once, but only half of it. To the union agitators only a certain amount should be given at first, and a larger sum in the case of success, or of a serious strike on tho formation of a union.’’