JAPANESE BOYCOTT.

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXVI, Issue 9, 4 October 1937, Page 3

JAPANESE BOYCOTT.

STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER. \YEI.!.INGT()N, Saturday. “There is only one body in a posiion of authority in New Zealand, and eminent,” stated the Prime Mini tei (the Rt. lion. M. J. Ravage), when commenting on the m .■ goods. ‘* We are i <4 going lo have five or six different • i L-anisations landing up and telling - with what countries we are going to trade.” Mr Savage said he had received immunic.itions from the Acting Con- > ! for .Japan in Wellington, Mr A. J) Bayfield, and also from the Con-l-General lor .Japan at Sydney. He • ■ del stot v at Lyttelton ! .id been settled satisfactorily, and tl Minister o Labor (the Hon. H. T. Aniistroiii:) was in touch with the ed b 4 \ the hold-up at A.' kland. It was hoped to have *. (■ information by to-day. TROUBLE SETTLED. BY INTERVENTION OF MR SAVAGE. WELLINGTON, This day. Difficulties which arose last week : though the refusal of waterside workers to handle cargo for Japan< ships have been settled as the re-ult of a conference which was held or Saturday, between the Prime Minis, or 18. Hon. M. .1. Savage, members of the Cabinet, and representatives of th Federation of Labor. • The Federation of Labor and the V tcrside Workers’ Federation have ml .ed to advise their affiliated bodies to work the ships,” said the Prime Ml ister in an official statement issued last evening. “The ordinary cl: inch* of trade will remain open.” The Prime "Minister was unable to ere nent on the position in any furth. detail. However, it is known tf the Government took an extremely - lions view of the situation which fie loped last week, and several meml;i" of the Cabinet were present the Prime Minister when the <li- -ions with the representatives of ;ho industrial organisations comThe conference, which was held in the Prime Minister’s room at P«r kiment Buildings, lasted for nearly three hours.