LABOUR AFFAIRS.
GENERAL DEMANDS CONCEDED. By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association. ! Received 9.30 p.m., August 2. TOKIO, August 1. Continued violence at Kobe has tesuited in the Mitsubishi shipbuilding works granting many of the strikers demands, including the placing of die factory in charge of a lecbuucal Alanagemenb Worlvers’ Committee, an eight hour day, and pensions. The Kaiwasaki company is expected to grant these demands. SOVIET INFLUENCES. Received 9.0 p.m., August 2. TOKIO, August 1. The vernacular Press hints that Soviet influences are behind the strikes. Bolshevik literature was seized at Harbin, and traced to Osaka, Printing Office. , It is alleged that numbers of Bolsnievik agents are in Japan, posing as merchants. , SOUTH AFRICAN TROUBLE. HOPE OF SETTLEMENT. Received 8.5 p.m., August 2. CAPETOWN, August 1. Tiio acceptance by a meeting of trade unionists at Johannesburg ot tho Chamber of Mines’ proposal for a conference to discuss the automatic adjustment of wages., affords a hope that the threatened mining strike will be averted. *
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 170572, 3 August 1921, Page 5
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