JAPANESE WORKERS
STANDARD OF LIVING COMPARISON WITH EUROPEAN (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, September 21. (Received Sept. 21, at 8 p.m.) Mr Matsudaira, the Japanese Ambassador, who was interviewed, said that though wages in Japan were low by comparison with Europe, it was most inaccurate to speak of Japanese labour as sweated. Money in Japan had a higher purchasing power; and workers were able to live in the, same comfort as Western operatives. Regarding the supposed boycott of Indian cotton by Japan and the depreciation of the yen, it must be remembered that the increasing costs of Japanese manufactures were compelling a continual balancing of incomings and outgoings. The fact that many were unemployed in Japan necessitated access to foreign markets, but Lancashire was in the same predicament, so the situation was complicated pending an agreement being made in London, probably after Christmas.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22065, 22 September 1933, Page 7
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