Japanese Labour Not Sweated
STATEMENT BY AMBASSADOR TO LONDON United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received Thursday, 7 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 21. M. Matsudaira, the Japanese Ambassador, interviewed, said that, though wages in Japan were low by comparison with Europe, it was most inaccurate to speak of Japanese labour a 3 sweated. The money of Japan had a higher purchasing power and the workers were able to live in the same comfort as Western operatives.
Regarding the supposed boycott of Indian cotton by Japan and tho depreciation of the yen, it must be remembered that increasing costs of Japanese manufactures were compelling continual balancing of incomings and outgoings. Tho fact that there were many unemployed in Japan necessitated access to foreign markets, but Lancashire wa3 in the same predicament; so the situation was complicated pending the agreement being made in London, probably after Christmas.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7268, 22 September 1933, Page 6
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