GERMAN PLOTTING IN AMERICA.

Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14725, 2 October 1915, Page 6

GERMAN PLOTTING IN AMERICA.

'• /STRIKE SCH.EME PAFFtEP. ; . LONDON, October-1. . The Freeman’s. Journal gives details of German plans for. promoting strikes in America. - - Matthew Cummings, a Bostonian, approached Mr William Dempsey, secretary of tho Atlantic Longshoremen ’a - Society, 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 1 ' T. O’Connor, the longshore nen’s president,, an Irish Labour 'leader. Cummings refused to state who was tho principal, but said that he could raise j63i7,000, o’Connor had no deiuht -the principal was Dcrnbi&g. : ■ Cummings said the scheme would" tie up the «hipning ; ; on the Atlantic coast; -cripple the Allies, and; assure German success; ' O’Connor told'thc'~whole story to the 'United States officials, and the conspiracy was defeated. ■ - k . Cuffimings was previously connected with political intrigue ; in Ireland.