The tramway workers, who are} directly employed by the Electric) Bureau, began to get restive. They had been promised an]
jerease of salary and amelioration of their conditions by. the former chief of the Electric Bureau, Would their successor honour that promise? The new! man, My. Daido, was approached by representatives of the tramway workers, but a definite' reply. The workers. threatened to go on strike, "and 'a novel strike they threatened to stage.
'They decided to run the services splendidly, but not to take a sen' fiom the public. The public would conveyed comfortably and ly free of charge until the Electric Bureau redressed the tramway men's grievances.
Daido soon consented to the men' demands and the strike did not} materialize. The tactics of the! tramwayman were obvious. They, first of all, did not want to have the public' against them. Then, they wanted the spotlight of a searching inquiry directed towards municipal polities, There was} plenty of drama in what the men were doing and threatened to do and the Japanese public dearly loves the dram In the meantime Tokyo jour a mayor. Several eminent mong them Mr, Junnosuke a former Finance Minister and a former Governor of the Bank of Japan, were asked to accept the place, but declined to do So frequent has been the pi of scandal in Tokyo's city poli that docent persons do not care to!
notify themselves with municipal affairs until the Augean stables are cleaned out. This, the police seem to have decided to do. 'The city' of Tokyo enjoys full self-government, but the liberty granted has, Hthus far, degenerated into licence.
The upset in municipal affairs' also means that the reconstruction programme cannot make the headway it should, for, instead of the sympathetic understanding for the' solving of the city's needs which }is indispensable, there is constant} manquvring for personal and, party advantages, which means} crooked polities.
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