The Government has prepared the text of a Trade Union Bill which will be introduced at the next regular session of the Imperial Dist which convenes in December. Con siderable opposition to the proposed Inbour measure has been offered and, onder the circumstances, it is very doubtful if any effective me faure, regulating the relations between labour and capital enacted at the next session of the Diet.
The most formidable opposition to the proposed bill has come from a group of capitatsts who, meeting at the Industrial Club, went on record as opposed to the proposed Dill, The principal reasons adduced for their attitude were that the time has not yet come to give, the workers in Japan the right to form uunjons and that there are matters of more pressing need that the Government should attend to before thinking of giving the workers, new weapon to be used against capitalists Tu view of the support, direct and indirect, that Governments in Japan, mo malter of what party come plexion, have always received from capitalists and in. view of the fact that the capitalists of the country are firmly entrenched in Both houses of the Legislature, the Government cannot very well antagonize them and the consensus of opinion is that the Government will allow the measure to die still-horn or shelve it.
Labour organizations are also posed to the Government's pro-
jat the measure falls far short of focasure, their oan beg "what the class-conscious workers in Japan have een expecting, especially since the proposed bill does not sive all employes the right to join unions; does not provide punitive measures against employers who violate the law, while having them [for the workers; and because the request of the. labourers for a Board of Government officials to watch over employers and employes when there is a dispute has been rejected.
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