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Show mu cms . " RIGHT TO CULL . OUT AUSTRIANS 3 5 & 'ts Authorship of. Letter Let-ter Telling of Plan to Curb Munition Output in U. S. ;ks conference with secretary ys He Can Satisfactorily Ixplain Statements Made in Communication to Archibald. s- International News Service. .ENNOX, Mass.. Sept. 5. Dr. Con-- Con-- atin T. Dumba. Austro-Hungarian ' assador. admits that James E. Ajga&-the Ajga&-the American correspondent ar- ! ed in London, was a dispatch -rer to the Austrian government, and t the letters written, in New York August 20, with regard to proposals :ie up the manufacturing of muni- PlQS in Bethlehem and in the middle t. was a bona fide dispatch to For-i For-i Minister Burian in Vienna. In letter Dr. Dumba said: . We can disorganixe and hold up r months if not entirely prevent the inufaetuxe of munitions in Bet hie -m and the middle west, which. In e opinion of the German military tache is of great importance and ipty outweighs the expenditure of . aney involved. mits Discussion. Dumba auso admits that an at-A at-A to embarrass the munitions plants ?alllng out Austro-Hungarians baa dineussed and that very Uke!y, in event this is done, a labor employ-t employ-t bureau will have to be organized .ake care of the unemploved Hun-ans. Hun-ans. it was this proposal that Archi- carried with him. Dumba says there has been no piracy and that articles looking lo-i lo-i calling out all of the men of Aus-ungarian Aus-ungarian citizenship from plants ing war supplies have been printed ewspapers published in foreign lan-:es lan-:es in New York and elsewhere. As resonsible head of hia government in United States, the embassador has ht to show to men of Hn ngaria n i and subjects of Austria-Hungary employment in arms and munitions ts where the product Is to be used by allies, is a felony In their country that workers in these plants are lia- m Austria-Hungary to long- terms imprisonment or penal serviture for - ering vital assistance to ihe enemies -. .-heir country. -cs Conference. e embassador sent a telegram to Sec- y of State Robert Lansing this aft--- on asking for an Interview in Waah-ftSo Waah-ftSo on Tuesday, at which he will ex-g, ex-g, i to the secretary the exact import Is dispatch which Archibald carried. Dumba will leave Lenox tomorrow ilng for Xew York and expects that -etary Lansing will grant him the in-ew. in-ew. He said tonight: H.ere Is nothing in the dispatches j -. ich Archibald carried that cannot -jj, satisfactorily explained. The mosals regarding embarrassing el works were nothing more than a y open and proper method to be ;en to bring before our race em-yed em-yed In the big steel works the fact 0. they were engaged in enterprises Rtich were unfriendly to their fathered father-ed and that the imperial govern- pt w-ould hold the workers in mu-,lon mu-,lon plants where contracts are be- Tt filled for the allies, as being guilty l a serious crime against their county coun-ty Proposal. The dispatches or letters carried by chibald contained nothing more un a proposal that we call out the rkingmen of our country from - el and ammunition works and pro- e for them other employment. To so money would be necessary and labor emploj-ment bureau would ve to be organized. This is one of s things I shall bring before the rotary of labor when I am in tshfngton. This seems to be to be peaceful and entirely satisfactory ana of preventing the making and pment of war materials to our imies. NSING DECLINES TO TALK ABOUT DUMBA LETTER ' nternational News Service. ASHINGTON, Sept. 5. Secretary itate Lansing refused tonight to dis-the dis-the letter alleged to have been rtften to Foreign Minister Burian of Q.k, in which Dr. Dumba, the Aus-i Aus-i embassador to the United States, i rtsa plan to "hold up for mooths, tamed on Page 3, Sport Section.) DUMBA ADMITS HE TALKED DF SHE (Continued from Page One.) if not entirely prevent t h manufacture at tnanitfoai in Bethlehem and the mid- lle went. ' ' The m.'i tier, as, it stands, it one of extreme delicacy and perhaps fcerious tieis, Th main lisne in vol veil in the action! of the Austrian embassador in t hat t hey luffffeet h n interference in not only Ihe in tenia 1 bniifiess affairs but the politics of thin country. The tit ate depart meiit. It muni have been known to t he embassador, hag taken ground on t In- question of the manufacture of arms in the United States, whether for bfdligerentK or ne.u-t ne.u-t ralv This government has also taken ground on the (iiention of the export of munitions of war. It ha been held that the American citizens have th right to rth i j anything anywhere, even if the eg ffcoee an- contraband, but in the latter case, of course, with the risk of Cfl pt ore. One of the department officials says that the question of the manufacture of munitions and their export has become be-come a grave political question in the United Htates. Aside from that, it instated in-stated that the ifisue in one entirely if' tween tin- people of the United States and the Htate department, and not between be-tween the, Austrian government and the people of the I'nited States. |