GERMAN INTRIGUE IN AMERICA.
HOW A STRIKE WAS AVERTED
Received 7.35 p.m. Oct. 1; LONDON, Oct. 1
"The Freeman's Journal" gives details ot German plans for promoting strikes in America.
Matthew Cummings, a Bostonian, approached Mr William Dempsey, 6ecrc tary of the Atlantic Longshoremen, regarding a strike. Strikers would be paid ten dollars per week. He considered a six weeks' strike would be sufficient. As a bait to the leaders he suggested that they give the workmen five dollars, the leaders to pocket the balance. Cummings communicated with T. O'Connor, the Longshoremen's president, an Irish Labour leader. Cummings refused to state who was the principal, but said that he could raise £327,000. O'Connor had no doubt the principal was Dernburg. Cummings said tne scheme would tie up the shipping on the Atlantic coast, cripple the Allies and assure German success.
O'Connor told the whole story to the United States officials, and the conspiracy was defeated. Cummings was previously connected with political intrigue in Ireland.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 20474, 2 October 1915, Page 4
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