Tokyo, Mar. 28.
At a mooting held yesterday in Osaka by the General Union of Labour in Japan, six leading mem-hers were expelled from the mem bership of the General Union. The yeason advanced was that these former members were traitors to the country in that they sought to establish a Soviet here, preachied Communism to workers and generally worked to bring the Japanese artisan and manual worker under the influence of Red principles.
'The expulsion of these six members means the purging of practical-all Communist influesice from this vast workers' union. With the pronouncement of this unprecedented and almost revolutionary decision, some five to ten thousand other: members, believers in Sovietism and. followers of the expelled six, automatically will clear out, whereby. the General Union of Labour in Japan will be rid of an anarchistic-ally-inclined and direct-action-abetting: element.
The thing does not seem to be a mere accident or coincidence. Bolshevik trouble breeders vill find that the present soil of the General Federation of Labour in Japan is not so receptive to the fantastic theories of bland-und-thunder initial ed by the Mviet, as it probably was before Japanese workers realized the weak plank in their edifice and bravely tore it up afd threw it away.
Attacks on Homes of Japan's Peers The domestic political situation here has been, for some days past, full' of "ominous" forebodings. Ths Peers and the Government have been staying battle atter battle, now on the Budget, now on the Suffrage Bil and now on the supplementary education proposals, Almost invincible in their Upper House stronghold, "the representatives of Japan's nobility refused! even to consider the supplementary educational appropriations, slashed the budget and introduced so many alterations into the Suffrage Bill hat the press is intensely incensed against the Opper House.
the original suffrage bill, chore wax a clause prohibiting the franchise to any parson or: vons who. lived on. charity, "public or te, The Peers got hold of this cause and declared that it should be replaced by one which refuses the vote to those who depend on others for help, the scope of the immensely, especially with the large number of unemployed in Japan at present, and is tantamount denial to Universal manhood suffrage.
Further, such " clause will bring family secrets to light when the polling fever grips everybody, and "family skeletons will be exposed in manner that will simply prevent people from exercising their franchise rights.
"The House of Representatives and the Cabinet have both refused to accept this amendment of the Upper House. The Upper House, however, is adamant and the next 24 hours will prove whether the impcading impasse will result in a Political crisis or not.
The general indications are that 4 compromise will be resorted to. None of the Government parties or of the Opposition, desire to go to the polls again. Apart from the uncertainty whether they can come. back in a majority, there is also the fact that elections in this country are a very expensive luxury. To be elected to the Diet here costs each candidate anything from Yen 50,000 to Yen 300,000 and purses are far from being too well lined these hard days,
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