JAPANESE LABOR UNIONS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, 23 October 1916, Page 8

JAPANESE LABOR UNIONS.

AN IMPORTANT MOVEMENT

BY CABLES-PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT (Received Oct. 23, 9:20 a.m.) ' ,SAN BmANCISCO, Oct. 22 Nine Japanese Labor Unions Have been formed and are affiliating to form a Japanese Labor Council. The movement will be extended throughout the Pacific States and British Columbia. It is'the outcome, of a suggestion'"of the president of the" American, Federation of Labor to eliminate unfair competition' of Japanese .'.-by- establishing the same wages and working hours and con--ditions as are maintained by American Unions, anU raise the standard of' the living of the Japanese.