I.W.W. AND THE WAR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 80, 1 November 1916, Page 3

I.W.W. AND THE WAR.

GERMAN INFLUENCE ALLEGED.

In the course of an address at Darlinghurst (N.S.W.) a. few days ago, Mr Hall, Attorney-General, said that after a perusal of documents which

had come into his hands from the offices of the I.W.W. one could have little doubt as to what influences were at work in that organisation.

The. records showed,, he proceeded, that, on the outbreak of the war the following resolution was passed—- " That every member of the I.W.W. who joins the'military .forces be expelled from the organisation, and that the organisation brands any member who joins the military forces as a scab and a traitor to. the workingclass." - " ■ ;

No wonder the men who passed a resolution Jike that to; discourage voluntaryism now constituted the vanguard of the opposition to compulsory service. The official list of members of the organisation comprised apparently between 700 and 800 members. Looking over it, one was struck with the polyglot nationalities so far as the names indicated. Over fifty of such names were clearly German in origin. They included the following:— Y. Berchmeir, S. Clueas, Frietag, J. Guerir, C. Greenberg, D. Goldstein, ' C. Greenberg, B. Goldberg, 4J. Goldberg, F. Holmstrom, C. Hopner, M. Ausclira, T..Dalims, G. Frank, GulovL. ; dohraim/ B. Goldberg, P. Gerekie, B. Goldberg, F. J. Holstrom, >M Hehir,|.|..E. Holstrom, A. Jacobsin, E. v. Johanscn, .). •fvollir, O. Kl-edclseii,' : .l. Kupzog, F. %eistrer, "'{?,... Li el man;, ', C. Lklruan, Fritz Mullor, C. Nieliiiann, W. Raulstraum,. P.nßiritz, J. Sucker, S. Hi. Schroder, L. Zeleror, A. Zimmer, Serge Zarabolofl', H. B. Jacobson, W. Jimmer, C. T. Johanson, X. Karshen, :L. Krertz, F. A. Kaiser, W. Lunn- ' struder, R. Liadig, T. Lehman, M, , Meyer, N.-Runnstraum, A. Rosenthal, C. Schroder, W. Schinkal, A. von Esweld| A, Zimmer, and A. Zimmer. "Theso are the new associates of the party," concluded Air Hallf TOq wonder they want to see the referendum beaten. These a re-. the men who honeycombed the, tradeunion organisations and breathed into tlie Labor-movement their spirit oi enmity to the Kmpire. These are the., men who with their countrymen in Germany would boastfully rejoice it Australia turned from the path of honor and duty and degraded itsell by giving a <;'No': voja, on the 28th." (Cheers.) ~.,.. i i