HUN INTRIGUES.
A CONSPIRACY FRUSTRATED
LONDON, Friday
Freeman's Journal details the German plans for promoting strikes in America. Matthew Cummings, a Bostonian, approached Win. Dempsey, secretary to tho Atlantic longshoremen, proposing that strikers be paid ten dollars a. week. Ho considered six weeks' strike suiutiient. To the leaders he suggested that they give tho -workmen fivo dollars, and the leaders pocket tho balance. Cunimings communicated with O'Connor, the longshoremen's president, and an Irish Labour leader, who led him on. Cummings refused to state who was the principal, but said he could raise £327,000. O'Connor had no doubt the principal was Dernberg._ Cunimings said the scheme was to tie up the shipping on the Atlantic coast, cripple the Allies, and assure Genua a success. O -'Connor told the whole story to United States officials, and the conspiracy was defeated. Cunimings had previously been connected with political intrigue in Ireland.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 14398, 2 October 1915, Page 6
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