LABOUR IN JAPAN.
POLITICAL PARTY LAUNCHED
MINIMUM WAGE WANTED.
TOKIO. Oct. 7. A Japanese Labour federation, an amalgamation of the majority of the unions, was formally organised at & convention at Osaka.
After defeating motions by the avowed Syndicalist Party, the federation adopted a resolution demanding the immediate recognition of the Moscow the evacuation of Siberia, a minimum wage, no night work, and the restriction of the rights of the police to interfere with trades unionists.
Another resolution which was adopted expressed " a determination to fight unflinchingly against oppression and persecution by capitalists." " Fully convinced," says the resolution, " of the impossibility of the amicable co-e.x ; stence of capital and labour, we are, therefore, determined to accomby our own efforts, through unionism, 'the perfect emancipation of labour, and the establishment of a new society, on the basis of justice and equality." The opening of the session was marked by clashes with the police, who were made the targets for stones and daggers. The most violent of the Socialists were arrested.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18223, 17 October 1922, Page 7
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