JAPS IN SIBERIA.

Grey River Argus, 10 July 1922, Page 8

JAPS IN SIBERIA.

APPEAL TO ORGANISED LABOUR. Over the signatures of Robert Williams (president, International Transport Workers’ Federation), Ben Tillct, ALP. (Transport and General Workers’ Union; General Council British Trades Union Congress), J. Bromley (general secretary, Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen; General Council British Trade Union Congress), Neil Maclean, AI.P. (British Labour Party Executive Council), J. E. Miss, AI.P. (Amalgamated Engineers’ I nion), and Robert Smillie (Miners’ Federation of' Great Britain; General Council British Trade Union Congress), an appeal has been issued to international organised Labor to boycott Jap;.u until her troops are completely withdrawn from Siberia. The appeal states: “As internationalists, we would urge the workers of Europe, Ame rica, the British colonies, and the world generally to do all that is possible to apply a boycott of all things Japanese until the Japanese troops are completely withdrawn from Siberia.” According to information received by the signatories, there have been terrorism, persecution, repression, and vindictive punishment, more inhuman than that which characterised the Spanish

Inquisition during the period that Siberia had been occupied by the military forces of Japan. We urge organised labour throughout Australia to support this appeal by refusing to buy or trade in Japanese goods.