BAN ON STRIKES IN JAPAN

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 75, 8 January 1949, Page 5

BAN ON STRIKES IN JAPAN

AMBASSADOR’S COMMENT WASHINGTON, Jan. G. The Soviet Ambassador, Mr Alexander Panyuskkin, said to-day that the Far Eastern Commission has rejected Russia’s efforts to overrule General MacArthur’s ban on strikes by Japanese Government workers. Mr Panyushkin said that the commission had in effect placed its. stamp of approval on “these anti-democratic” measures.

The commission itself made' no official announcement about the decision reached at its meeting It was later learned that the Russian move was defeated by nine votes to one at a heated session of the Far Eastern Commission.

The Philippine? delegate, Ambassador Carlos Romfilo, said that Russia was making a malicious distortion of the commission as a springboard for propaganda.

Sir Carl Berendsen, the New Zealand Ambassador, said that the Russian resolution was regarded by an overwhelming majority as- completely irrelevant to the situation now existing. The Washington correspondent of Reuters says it is known that several members of the Far Eastern Commission, notably New Zealand and Australia have been anxious to make certain that Japanese workers are given collective bargaining and other rights which are conceded to the workers in most democratic countries.