THE KOBE STRIKE.
A SEVERE SKIRMISH. By Telegraph.—Press Assn —Copyright. Tokio, July 31. A Cabinet meeting has been called to consider the Kobe strike, which has again assumed violent features. The police drew their sabres and. in a skirmish with the strikers, wounded more than fifty Several thousand laborers m various industries have ceased work and inarched to the shrines singing labor songs. The Municipal Assembly at Kobe carried a motion condemning the use of sabres by the police. Received August 2, 8.5 p.m. Tokio, August 1. The continued violence at Kobe resulted in the Mitsubishi shipbuilding works granting many of the strikers’ demands, including placing the factory in charge of the technical management of a workers’ committee, an eight-hour day and pensions. The Kawasaki company is also expected to grant the demand. — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Isan. BOLSHEVIKS BLAMED Received August 2, 8.5 p.m. Tokio, August 1. The vernacular Prens hints that Soviet influences are behind the strikes. Bolshevik literature was seized at Harbin and traced to an Osaka printing office. It is alleged there are numbers of Bolshevik agents in Japan posing as merchants.—Reuter Service.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 August 1921, Page 5
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