JAPAN MOVEMENTS
By Electric Telegraph—Copyright, j CONDITIONS IN JAPAN. LONDON, June 1. Writing in “The Times,” Mr J. 0. P. Bland (who was formerly correspondent of “The Times” at Shanghai and Peking) states that he came to Japan expecting to find evidence of serious uprest and organised movements amongst the workers. He had beard a good deal about the exorbitant demands and modern lack of discipline of the mpp ; but capitalists generally were not paying attention to labour problems, There was little evidence of a general desire by the country to subscribe to the findings of the International Labour Conference,
On the contrary, there was a definite desire to le,t things be, and to allow Japan to enjoy 1 the eompetitve advantages of free trade in human material, unfettered by restrictions on child labour, hours, or wages.
Two salient facts are that the Government decline to 'allow two million factory workers to organise any union, and second that there is no organiesd labour party nor prominent politician prepared t® lead.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 June 1920, Page 2
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