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22nd, 1927.
伍拜禮
日式廿月四年七廿百九仟登英
JAPAN'S. UNEMPLOYMENT" AND "SOCIAL
CRISIS.
DIFFICULTIES OF THE PEASANTS AND TENANTS.
REVOLUTIONARY TENDENCIES”
[BY THEODOR STERNBERG.}
Special interest attaches to the following article in view of the banking crisis in Japan, news of which appears elsewhere in this issue. It shows very clearly the nature of the economic difficulties which beset the Island Empire at the present time, and, in fact, edplains the cautious policy adopted by Tokyo with regard to China:
According to the last oficial almost daily some violent dispute tenants and landlords. figures, the number of unemployed between
better
the relatione
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H.K.CO. Tennis Tournament (details in sporta column daily).
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in Japan has reached one milbeu. Amendments to the land laws, de A few years ago, when employ.signed to ment first began to attract stten-between tenants and landowners, tion following the collapse of the are constantly before Parliament vid Negapatam (Santhia); Europe war booin, the number was esti- Some excellent reforms have been vid Siberia (Katori Meri).
Saturday. mated at ninety-six thousand. It put through, but without much
St. George's day: Wreath laying might have been held down to that effect on general conditions. Dis figure it Japan had pursued a las content is as strong as ever, and ceremony, Cenotaph, 9 a.m.; Free between the partics Cinema parlormance for Service sighted and prudent policy. She condicts
men, Queen's Theatre, 2-7 p.. had won important foreign markets multiply.
The official explanation of the E.K. Telephone Co., Ltd., annual during the war, and there was DO
Building, KING Exchange renser why she might not retain present agrarian crisis is that durmeeting, there. But that would have accessing the war the tenants were so second floor, 11 am
that they got exag Football:-Charity match for sicated reaching some kind of under prosperous standing with Soviet Russia and gersted ddess of life, and that they M.C.L.: Army. Hong Kong, co-operating wholeheartedly in the refuse to return to lower stan Sockungoo, 4 p.m. reconstruction of Europe. Instead! dard of living now that lean years of doing so, however, Japan went have come again. But the difficulty to war with Russia and supported lica far deeper, and there is little the very policies in Europe that prospect that it will be removed. Japan is too small for her popula retarded that continent's recovery. Her conduct there was determined tion. Many of the landowners are themselves Ln a bad way. To begin by two mistaken ideas-that it was to her interest to keep the West as with, during and after the war the weak as possible, and that by telp price of land rase beyond all rea ing Europe to recover she would sea. Landowners naturally try to only strengthen her industrial rivals. get renta that will give them a America was shrewder. She did reasonable return on this inflated not let political theories blind her valuation. But they cannot do so The growth of cities and specula- to her economic interests, and hastened to aid in European recon- tion have made land cost more, but straction. She has thus skimmed have not increased the size of crops, the cream from the world's busi- or the price those crops bring the
out cultivator. ness, while Japan has come with empty pockets. In 1918 Japan had between one andre bilion yen available for trade expansion To-day she has practically nothing. The right course to follow lay clear where short-term tenancy is the loon City Course. before her, but her business men and politicians refused to see it.
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Short Term Ten Ervoday → Thus the tragedy begins a fit ends like a canker into every country Junior Section, R.E.K.G.C., Kow-
Golf: Kowloon Golf Club
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rule.
The landowner can always get a new tenant; some fellow who has inherited enough capital to Pay his guarantee and to put in a crop can always be found to take vacant holding, The new rente: knows quite well that his predeces sor could not make ends meet, bu: ho hopes to be luckier. After a few years both his capital and his labour are lost. So one instalment of tenants after another is ground through the maill, to be pauperized
1st Extra Race Meeting, Macao. Cricket: University . Cameroni. aas, Pokfulam ground.
St. George's Society attend St. John's Cathedral morning service.
Farewell sermon of Rev. G. R. Lindsay, St. Andrew's Church, Kowlood, 0 p.m.
Monday. H.K.C.C. Tennis Tournament (details in sports column daily).
Ten Dances: H.K. Hotel, cte!
Acute Social Crisis. Thus it is that Japan finds hor- self to-day in the midst of an coute unemployment and social crisis. If she had a well-organized system of Kovemment employment offices and advanced social legislation such as Germany and most other European countries have, her workers might get along fairly well even as it is. There is much truth in what a Tokyo chief of police said not long ago: The Japaness working man 13 ne fellow. He does not care Nevertheless, the tenants
Give him & little putting up
Their for theories."
hard fight. money and a flask of sake, and he sources of strength lic partly in the is contented." But labour laws clan eystem, which makes the rural and social welfare legislation are population of whole districts more practically unknown, and the or less blood relatives, and in the p.m.
movement
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in turn and added to the herd of Savoy, King Edward Hotel, and praniless labourers seeking jobs at Cafe Parisia, 430 p.m factory gates.
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cover the Principal Mails:-Inward: U.S.A, masses at times grow desperate. tenants untry with their organiza. etc. (President Adams and Prest Aimless violence often accompanies whole country strikes. Yet, although labour dis- sion. The latter are so strong that dent Jefferma). Outward: Canada, turbances reach dangerous heights a great landlord will occasionally U.S.A, etc, and Europe vid San in imited localities, the labour try the experiment of cultivating Francisco (President McKinley), 5
whole lacks his property with hired labour. It
Tuesday. strength. Trade-unions have no so, he is likely to import Koreans
H.K.C.C Tennis Tournament assured status before the law, and to work his fields. On account of
The
Intense the lead a semi-legal existones.
hostility which country (details in sports columa daily). Government's policy toward them paple cherish toward these aliens, alternates between extreme rigour he has to keep them isolated from and benevolent paternalism.
the rest of the community and herd.
WEATHER REPORT. et in labour camps. Generally discovers that thir system is no more
Yesterday's weather report, fore- profitable than the other. Koreaas cast and remarks, issued by the bring no operating capital with Royal Observatory them and the landlord who employs stated:- them must assume all risks and ber row his operating capital at high
A Political Menace. Japan's fundamental social pro- blem, however, is not that of ber industrial workers, but of her pea sants. The latter are really in ex- treme distress. They suffer worse, and they form a far larger and more self-assertive section of the population, than do the wage earn
cra.
interest rates.
Small Folders Ha Hit, Peasants who bare mall fee simple holdings, most of whom also
at 6 P.M.
The anti-cyclone over China bas strengthened. Fresh monsoon may be expected along the $.E. coast of China and over the northern portion of the N China Sea.
LOCAL FORECAST: N.E. winds,
Talk.
Their agitation is seriously. feared by the upper classes and by the Government. A great network rent more or less load, are equally moderate to fresh; overcast, some of co-operative societies, or pea- hard hit by the agricultural crisis, santa unions, covera the whole and their little plots are rapidly country, and provides machinery being absorbed by the large calates. to give a decent living to so large
Even if the land
through which the country people, So they rally to the same barrera population.
as the tenants. The situation of were to be nationalized without
who have just acquired the vote, can make their will effective.
all,
Above both classes is aggravated by the compensation to the owners, the
official
is to transfer the excces labour claewhere. According to statistice, Hokushu, the northern island, can support twelve million agriculturalists. But it will take a large amount of capital to make this cold northern country atte tive to the Japanese; they will
the authorities fear an alliance extraordinarily high interest rates peasants would be little better off The only between the industrial workers and on farm loans, which are not con- than they are today. the peasants, and they are doing rolled by the Bank of Japan as thing that can relieve the situation their best to prevent it by sowing they are by central banks in most dissension between them. To the European countries. So the mort upper cineses and the old politiciana zage business also is in a bad way the spectre of a united workers' and the amount the farmer receives for peasants party is absolutely terri- his crop, is also lessened by the fying. Their efforte to keep the extraordinary number of middle workers and peasants from getting and by the torso bonds it passes together have so far been fairly and by the notorious overstaffing of successful, partly on account of produce houses, which naturally the rural labourer's simplicity and adds to the expense of handling. ignorance. For example, if a poli- Revolution Can Provido No tical agitator goes through the
„Ramody... country promising that he will have all taxes abolished if elected, he gets the votes.
to be wooed away from the exclu- sive. cultivation of rice, and learn to raise unfamiliar, crops Two hundred million yen a year would be required to accomplish anything way to secure this money be to subtract it from the tionary tendencies. But a revolu-military and naval budget. Popu- "Tenant farming is almost uni- tion can accomplish nothing, blation pressure, industrial uneth- versal in Japan, and the tenants, cause the real trouble is that the ployment, and the agricultural pro who are fearfully exploited, form land does not produce enough, nor blem may therefore force Japan
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