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Show EMBASSY BUSY CAUSING STRIKES Native Hungarian Serving as Immigration Officer in Cleveland Makes Charges Against Austro- Hungarians. BRIBES ARE OFFERED Dictagraph Record Offered as Proof of an Alleged Six Thousand Dollar Bribe. Cleveland. Ohio, Nov. 16 Hans Loeble, a native Hungarian, serving as city Immigration officer, today charged activity by the Austro-Hun-garian embassy at Washington in tho strike of machinists at the Theodor Kundtz factory hore. The Kundtz plant has been manufacturing bodies for automobiles to fill war orders for tho entente allies and has been tied several weeks by strike. Loeble's charges came in connection connec-tion with his defense before Mayor Newton D. Baker of informal charges that he hal been unduly active in his connection with the strike. He told the mayor that one of the chief advisers of tho strikers, whom he was convinced was In the pay of the Austrian-Hungarian government, had offered of-fered in his hearing "to sell out" the strikers for $6000. He told the mayor he became suspicious that this advisor advi-sor was disloyal to the Austro-Hun-garlan embassy at Washington and desired to "test him out," to see if he would sell out to the other side. Loeble offered in proof of his charges char-ges a dictagraph record taken by a private detective in an adjoining room in a local hotel, when tho $6000 bribe was alleged to have been solicited, so-licited, October 31. A majority of tho Kundtz strikers are Austro-Hungarians. no |