Behind all the L-hour turmoil in. Japan is something not at all clear to the outsider. We know that the Government has for long been alarmed at the presence among the workers of unsettling theories, and has tried to devise measures against them. With what degree of success. we may see from the events which have just occurred at the Kawasaki Dockyard, where, to avenge themselves for the dismissal of their leaders in the recent trouble, the workers have taken possession of the office premises and have now the dockyard itself under their personal control. The case seems. amazingly like what was happening a year ago in Italy, where it will be remembered thit Bolshevik sympathizers captured factories and fley the red flag over them. Now it may all ko part and parcel of the Bolshevik propaganda as- it was described up to a short time ago, and which the Japanese Government seriously feared, and there is nothing unlikely in assuming that the Japanese workers have come directly under the influence of Bolsheviks from. Russi she: same time, howe forget that Socialist propaganda has for long been rife in Japan, an® it may be that, as in the case of Labour unrest in China. its origin may go back to the early years of the present century when anarchical thought of an international character was disseminated from Paris.
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