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“DIRECT ACTION." KOBE KWANGTUNG ARMY'S. NEXT |

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FIVE PROVINCES TO CRUSH HUPER TUCHUN.

The action of this Kobe dockyard workers in taking possession" of the factories beurs sufficient superficial re- semblance to what happened in Italy last So persistent are the people of Hupab year-and in Russia before that--to make and elsewhere in their demand to have pimple ask if they are witnessing the Wang Chan Yuan, the Tuchun of Hupoh, beginnings of "Japanese Soviet. The

workers of the Kawasaki shipbuilding dismissed and punished, the troops of company, after a brief inherent strike, five southern provinces-Yunnan, Sze- invaded the dockyards, turned out the chuen, Hungan, Kweichow and Kwang. foremen and officials, occupied the estab tung have been ordered by the Govern lishment, od placed every department|ment (4.6, the Government at Canton) under the charge of a workers' executive to march against Hupeh with the sole committee. This looks very like the object of removing this apopular Italian demonstratione. If there were a Tachun from office and to have the pro- genuine attempt to seize the factories we vince governed by those who are loyal to should indeed be present at the birth of

the Constitutional Cause.. the most dangerous thought" that ever escaped the official abortionists of now The Szechzon and Human troops, being idea. Seizure of the factories seem to near Hupeh, have already marched to the ignorant mind the short cut toward the borders and skirmishes between Socialism. But there are only chemicalthese troops and these of Wang Chan traces of revolutionary Socialismu in Yuan have taken place. The troops Japan. For an explanation of the re- from Kwangtung will march northward markable actions of the Kawasaki em through Hunad to assist the allied troops ployees we must look to Japanese sources against this militarist whose troops have and Japanese ideas.

been a source of trouble to the province and people.

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As soon as Wang Chan Yuan is ousted and the province of Hupeh brought under the control of the legal Government, all the provinces south of the Yangtze River will be united in their support of the Government against the illegal Govern ment in Peking which is now showing is of discord and self-destruction.→

On Friday last Mr. Kagawa, the leather of the Kawasaki strikers, conferted with the local police and placed this very scheme for taking possession of the works before them. He said that it seemed likely that the employes would clown the dockyard and the workers would then be deprived of places in which to meet and organize their movement. They would. in his opinion, have no alternative but to go to the works in order to continu their agitation. To which the police made the obvions reply that they had to right to enter premises which had been COMPANY LAW IN JAPAN, closed to them and they would have to meet in open spaces. But men will do'

Canton Times.

the familiar thing sooner than the un The memorandum and articles of an familiar. The Kuwianki workers, ab important Japanese company, recently to their workshops as usual, dispinced | registered under Section 274. fords, the foremen and others who opposed them says Sk contributor to the London and went through the motions of appoint. | Finanzier, some interesting reading, and ing executive committees to take the place Tot without instruction, perhaps, to the of the officials. When later news comes Western "promoter of companies. The in-possibly before this is being read-principle of "seniores priores" is appli- we shall expect to hear that the executive ed, for example, when directors are coinmittees were charged to see that order | elected, for if two or more persons was maintained and no damage done. should have obtained an equal number

The explanation of this curious stop is of votes the elder shall be the person that it accords with the Japanese workers' | elected. If they were born on the same ides of their position vis-a-vis their em- day the decision shall be made by draw- ployers. Labour was not until yesterday, ang lots. Not more than ten directors regarded as a commodity in Japan. The and not more than five auditors are to relation of employer and employee was

be appointed. and the qualification "for not that of buyer and seller, united only both is the same. This provision, ton, by the cash nexus and submitting to the dealing with the directors qualification law of supply and demand. It was a shares is novel: A director shall be relation of master and servant, and was required to deposit with the auditors interpreted by the relations of the family. 500 shares owned by him from the day The old conception is dying with the apon which he is relieved of respon displacement of the individual master by sibility. The remuneration of directors the limited company, but it still our vives, and capitalists as well as workers left to the directors, but shall not Ap- are to be found arguing that the Japan-exceed 60,000 yen in one year." ese" oriyo shugi, (kindness principle)parently there are no transfer deeds or should govern the relations of capital duty in Japan, as." & person who has and labour instead of the soulless in Laken over shares must, when applying dividualism of supply and demand. To for alteration of title, sign his name turn faithful servants out of the work and affix his seal on the back of the shops where they spend their lives in your share certificate, and must forward this service seems to the simple Japanese work with a written application for alteration man about as mean an action as turning of title countersealed by both parties." a child out of the house. la going to Shareholders have to report their ad- the workshops they are not thinking of resses and seal impressious to the com taking possession of them in order to pany," but foreignera, may substitute acquire the ownership; they are merely signatures. After providing for making use of the place where they earn- nerve, 3 to 10 per cent. of the profits ed their daily bread in the past and hope is paid as bonuses to the staff before

it again when the unfortunate the shareholders receive any return. Affai

And while you might. convince separate individuals that they have no right inside a workshop from

to

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which they have been dismissed, you have RUBBER IN HAINAN ISLAND.

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The rubber industry has continued its downward course and is now practically

XD458 psychology. Twenty thousand men are more able to convince each other that they have a right to go back to the factories without which they must starve than quietly to accept at a standstill, attributable, in part, to "the key of the fields."

high freight and expenses, but, to

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Heary Clay

5) trees came to $24 a pieul, and freight and expenses to $3.50 a picul. Another serious obstacle is the absence of Govern. meat protection, hence the provalence of red brigandage in the interior,- Kingclaw Trade Report, 1920.

workers carried through a "ca", candy strike with compiete success. They struck work but did not quit their posts. The strike lasted for ten days.

The work shops were daily filled with orderly men who committed no excesses-and did no work. The employers were couplussed. the police had no excuse for interfering. When one considers the mentality of the Japance: "workers and the importance of

FIEUZAL GLASSES.

his labour organizations it was & Tory Out of doors there is nothing a restful sensible way of striking. That loyalty and comfortable for the eyes as the light which is so deeply rooted in the Japanese reflected from green fields and trees, the character was called into play. "We are

here ready to do our duty," the strikers absorption of the ultra-violet and orange seemed fod The attitude enlisted the hence the introduction of Fieaza! Glass, whenever our grievances rays by thủ chlorophyll of the leaves; are redressed," support of public opinion. The union

leaders had their task made easy. The yellowish green in colour, which is pro energy that has to be expanded by western | duced in several shades, and lenses made strike bosses in keeping strikers up to the

of this may be worn as a protection by There could be no, blacklegging. The Kawasaki strike soems over-sensitive eyes where it is desirable to be the only model on which Japanese to tone down excessive light and glare. strikes can at present hope to achieve

scratch was saved.

much, for in the absence of strong unions Fieuzal lenses of any prescription in with reserve funda strikes are doomed to either regular or Toric forms are manu-- peter out whenever the men get to thefactured by the Hongkong Optical Co., bottom of their pockets.

The movement, therefore, in spite of its successors to Clark & Co., Manufacturing minister appearance in western eyes, is and Refracting Opticians, 53, Queen's up to the present an orderly and sfo Road Central.-ADVT. form of labour dispute arising from the refusal of the company to, permit their cmployees to form unions and the dis

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missal-with liberal "diecharge moter" is's placid infancy. Whether it developes of the ringleaders in the union move safely or dangerously depends entirely ment. There is no doubt that the labour upon the method in which labour is dealt movement is growing throughout Japan; with. The main Japanese industry is that is the ordinary result of the intro- still agriculture and the family system duction of modern industry and the ten-make it easy to sbsorb the margin of dency of labour to mass when confronted unemployed when orises occur La the with massed capital, It is a natural factory industries. If the Government movement, and there is no need to fear has not shown any special anxiety to it, as the Government has tacitly admit- guide labour, it has not specially per- ted. There is an extreme fringe to the secuted it. Polica stupidity has been movement sad s natural disposition to expended upon a fow intellectuals. copy the methods of organized labour in Japanese populace in capable of sudden the Wort. When methods cannot be fares of anger like the political riots of copied appearances are copied as a mub 1919 and the rice riots of 1916 hut they stituto. Red flags are waved on Hay Day, at firoa of straw. The instincts of the federations of Socialists are formed, and people are submissive and loyal. The there recently came into being a fedora subversive idea that Jack is sa good as tion of trade unions which has probably be master bus xde little boudwax-in all the accessories of other federations of Japan. The rise of labour, if the situa labour-except merubers and money, But tion is wisely and liberally dealt with, it is all in its infancy, and compared need involve no danger to the State. with the lurid beginnings of the now That will be as it will be, but at present respectable Britian labour movement it there is no reason for alarms—Japan

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