LABOURITES URGE ECONOMIC PRESSURE

Northern Advocate, 4 October 1937, Page 5

LABOURITES URGE ECONOMIC PRESSURE

[United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright,] (Received p.m.) LONDON, October 2.

The Labour Party Executive at Bournemouth has prepared a motion for Mr C. R. Attlee to table at the annual conference tomorrow, viewing Japanese massacres with horror and detestation, welcoming the demand for an early meeting of Parliament to discuss the Far East situation, and calling on the Government to prohibit loans for the sale of war material to Japan. Britain is also urged to co-operate with the League and the United States to exercise economic pressure on Japan. Council states that it “abhors the

“Cowardly Aerial Raids.”

Hailing the salutary action of the Sydney Trades Council. and the New Zealand waterside workers in boycotting Japanese goods, the Shoreditch Council states that it “abhores the cowardly aerial attacks,” and brands the Japanese militarists as “madmen endangering civilisation.” The Council urges a world-wide boycott of Japanese goods, the embargo to include oil for Japan, and calls on the British Government to cancel diplomatic relations with “this bloody and barbaric Power.” Shame and sorrow at the Japanese aerial atrocities, as not representing the spirit and desire of the Japanese people, was expressed in an appeal to Japanese militarists to renounce such measures in a letter sent to “The Times,” jointly by the Archbishop of Canterbury and five other churcn heads.

Tokio Request to Primate

A cable message from Tokio states that a meeting of members of the Anglican Church passed a resolution requesting the Archbishop of Canterbury to reconsider his decision to preside at a protest meeting in the Albert Hall. London, on Tuesday, against Japanese bombings. Dr. Leaslett, Bishop of South Tokio, cabled the Archbishop accordingly.

The Scottish Council of the Labour Party has issued a manifesto calling upon all branches of Labour to express abhorrence of Japan’s “brutal and unprovoked attacks on Chinese civilians.”

It urges the British Government to propose to the League the enforcement of an immediate diplomatic, economic, and social boycott of Japan by all countries which desire peace.