MACARTHUR ATTACKED
POLICY IN JAPAN (11 a.m.) PRAGUE, June 13. The general secretary of the Australian Ironworkers’ Union, Mr. E, Thornton, told* a meeting of the general council of the World Federation of Trade Unions that the Supreme Commander in Japan, General D. MacArthur, was strengthening the old Japanese militarists and capitalists by suppressing the workers’ right to strike and demonstrate. Mr. Thornton was the only dissenter when the council accepted the report of a delegation which visited Japan and Korea. The report recommended an all-round improvement in living and working conditions, and also greater trade union participation in Japan. The delegation found “intimidation and terrorism” still hampering trade union development in the Americancontrolled southern zone of Korea, and urged speedy establishment of an administration more representative of the people's will. Mr. Thornton described the report as “unrealistic.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22356, 14 June 1947, Page 5
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