NO UNIONS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 2498, 12 June 1920, Page 7

NO UNIONS.

LABOUR IN JAPAN. ! “FREE-TRADE IN HUMANS.” j London, May 30. Til© Japanese fiscal yearly revenue was £78,900,000, an increase of | £16,400,000. Tln> expenditure sltow- , I'd an increase of £6,000,000. f Writing in “The Times” Air J. O. P. Bland (who was formerly correspondent of “The Times’ at Shanghai j | and Pekin' states that he came to • j Japan expecting to find evidence of | serious unrest and organised move- j moots amongst the workers. He had l j hoard a good deal about the exorbi- j taut demands and modern lack of i discipline of the mem, hut capitalists generally were not paying attention to labour problems. There v as little evidence of a general desire by the eoumtry to subscribe to the finding* of the International Labour Conference. 1 On the contrary, there was a de- 1 finite desire to let things be, and to a low Japan to enjoy the competitive advantages of free trade in human material, unfettered by restric- | tions on child labour, hours, or wag- i es. Two salient facts are that the Gov- j eminent declines to allow two mil- ! lion factory workers to organise any union, and second that there is no organised labour party nor prom in- ! cut politician prepared to lead. i