Tokyo, Apr. 23. An Asiatic Labour Conference is to be held in Tokyo in May, according nese press reports, It will International unity of labourers tu all As states; ejection of discriminatory treatment Inst Aslatle labourers; Soclatistie legislation; and The estutilshment of world pence.
Among the proposals to be introduced by the Japanese representatives are:
Flexibiity in the exchange of labour and natural resources as seen from the point of view of industry; Creation of an Aslaule committee at the International Labour Secretariat In Geneva to organize an Asiatic Labour Congress every other year; connection with labour' conditions Abolition. of racial discrimination tu il Industries 4m. all countries tu Ast Enaetment of labour legislation, recognition of the right of labourers take united action; Expansion of social insurance:
The fixing of minimum. wages; and Ralsing of the age limit and. the working: baure of Juventle. employee ud prolongation of the period of com pulsory edueation—Reuter.
'The Foreign Minister replied somewhat evasively, declaring that economic ce-operation between the two countries "would naturally be mutual," He added that Sino-Japanese questions would be settled in the spirit' of the so-called three basic principles evolved by Mr. K. Hirota, the Premier, and in a conciliatory attitude, Japan had no Intention of denounce Ing the Nine-Power Treaty, he re-[plied in answer to another query.
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