GOODS FOR JAPAN

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 55, 2 September 1937, Page 9

GOODS FOR JAPAN

RAjLWAYMEN'S DECISION

(By Teletrraph—Press Association.}

AUCKLAND; September I,

A decision to refuse to handle any article or commodity consigned % lo Japan untili.such time as .imperialist Japan withdraws 'front} the present conflict, was made by the Otahuhu branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants of New Zealand; at a meeting this week. The-meeting also called upon all workers to join them and so assist in bringing about a speedy end to the blood bath .threatening both the Chinese and Japanese workers. ,

The resolution stated that the action proposed was taken "owing to the most brutal and malicious method of attack on the Chinese people by the Fascist State of Japan purposely,:as we view the situation, with the object of beating back the ever-increasing and fastgrowing working-class :;riovement for emancipation and the true democracy of the people as against imperialism, caoitalu-m, and Fascism/ '.

; The view was expressed thai; the unwarranted arid unjustified bombings oi civilians in China were some of the most brutal outrages ever perpetrated upon mankind.