London, Jan. 16.
Urging a boycott against Japan at a meeting to-day of the railwaymen át Bristol, Mr, John Marchbanks, General Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, said that three lines of action were open to the Labour movement.
The first was to endeavour to get the national centres affiliated to the National Federation of Trade Unions and the Socialist International and, simultaneously, to urge their Governments individually to place an embargo on ships leaving each country with cargoes of essential materials for Japan's war industries.
The second measure, Mr. March-banks declared, was that the Labour Party of the British Trade Union Congress would request its own Government to take unilateral action on those lines, and to invite other Governments to take similar action, Failing this, he pointed out, there was a third line of action. This was that responsibility would lie upon the Labour movement of the Trade Union Congress to refuse to handle exports and imports to and from Japan.
That, Mr. Marchbanks, said, would be the most serious step. It was impossible, however, he added, to allow the Japanese invasion and conquest of China to continue, but he hoped that it would not be necessary even to consider that line.
"If the Labour movement of the Trade Union Congresses of other countries would join in urging their Governments to sending war materials to Japan," Mr. Marchbanks concluded, "the Japanese Government would sooner or later be brought to its knees."—Reuter.
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