UGLY FEELING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 137, 13 June 1933, Page 7

UGLY FEELING.

TRADE BOYCOTT.

WORLD PEACE MENACE

Japan Blames Britain for Duty

Increases in India.

OBJECTION TO PROPAGANDA. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 10.30 a.m.) KOBE, June 12. A unanimous decision to-day assured the Japanese cotton spinners' boycott of Indian cotton. AntiBritish propaganda is increasing, the general declaration being that the 25 per cent increase of duties was forced by the British Government against Indian wishes.

Publicists are to discuss the advisability of assisting Indian emancipation from the alien yoke. The Foreign Office declares that world peace is jeopardised.

A Calcutta message states that the insinuations by Mr. Miyakc, ConsulGeneral for Japan in India, that "the underlying motive" for the increased tariffs against imported Japanese piece goods is that Britain should regain what she lias lost by a boycott, and that the whole business has been engineered in the interests of Manchester, are strongly resented.

After surveying tlie Indian piece goods industry, which, has been brought to complete ruination by Japanese dumping, the Calcutta newspaper, "The Englishman," says: "The propaganda carried on by the Japanese authorities in India is ill-advised and would not be tolerated except in such an easy-going Empire as the British. It designed to create ill-will between Lancashire and India and to prove that Lancashire, and not Japb.il, is the enemy of Indian industrialism."

RISKS TO RELATIONS.

Japanese Business Men and

Trade Rivalry,

OPINION IN LONDON.

LONDON, June 12.

Leading Japanese bankers and industrialists in a letter to the "Daily Mail" deny dumping? but admit that as Japanese labour costs so little it would take very high duties to exclude their goods. The writers express the fear that the growing competition between Britain and Japan will imperil their good relations. Therefore industrialists and business men representing the two countries should meet and seek a mitigation of this competition without harming the industrial or commercial interests of either country.

WOMEN EXPLOITED.

" WAGES RATES IN JAPAN.

KOBE, June 0.

Overwhelming corroboration of amazing disclosures regarding Japanese sweated labour is supplied by investigations here.

The following figures give a sharp idea of Japanese labour conditions, which, combined with depreciated money, arc, rather than dumping, the cause of the amazing increase in exports:—

A 10 or 12-hour day is worked in most factories. The highest average daily wage in any industry is 5/, and the lowest 7d (in match factories). A hundred sen equals about 1/0 in Xetv Zealand money, and a Government Investigation in December revealed that the daily average wage of females is 77 sen (1/2) for cotton spinning, 00 (1/0 A) on cotton power loom, 00 (1/) in silk filature, and 71 (1/0|) in hosiery. Regarding males, moulders draw 210 sen (3/3), glasemakere 172 (2/7), carpenters 195 (2/11), turners 219 (3/31), masons 2C2 (3/0), labourers 120 (1/101). Wages have not increased this year. Tsuneko Akamatsu, president of the Women's Labour Federation, states that women are working 12 hours daily for from 15 to 20 yen (from £1 2/0 to £1 10/) a month at weaving, rayon, celluloid, rubber and electrical works, which largely employ female labour. JS'ew hands get only about 25 sen (about 4Jd) daily, less 15 sen (2}d) for dormitory charges.