The Archive · 1922

Japanese Labour Movement

Interesting Review of Events in 1921: Workers' Resolve to Force Better Terms Tokio, Jan. 11, As in everything else, Japan is backward in the Labour movement when compared to Europe or America. With the exception of a few minor agitations, the country did not know of such a thing as Labour movement. as is is known in Western countries, previous to the outbreak of the Great War. Indeed it was not untill February, 1919, that the movement became a matter of nationa! concern in Japan. To-day that movement is following in spirit and in thought the same course that it has followed in Western countries, and in less than three years it has made rapid progress, On the other hand, the forces of Capital are still moving in the same old selfish groove. And it is here that there lies cause for unrest and possible trouble in Japan.

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