JAPANESE CIVIL SERVANTS
UNIONS THREATEN TO STRIKE
INCREASE SOUGHT IN WAGES
(Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, February 5. Reuter’s Tokyo correspondent says that moderate leaders of nearly 3,000,000 Japanese trade unionists today threatened the Government with a nation-wide general strike unless civil servants’ wages were increased. The leaders, representing half of Japan’s trade unionists, accused the Government of disregarding advice by the National Personnel Authority (an advisory board ordered by General MacArthur) that the basic wage of civil servants should be increased from about £6 a month to £B.
The leaders said that a general strike would be ordered automatically if the Budget, which is expected to be passed within a month, failed to grant the increase.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26031, 7 February 1950, Page 5
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