London Press Comments on Cheap Labour London, Sept. 29.
Commenting upon Japanese industry in an editorial' to-day "The Times," "while acknowledging the technical and commercial skill of the Japanese, expressed alarm—over Japanese competition in England which, the paper stated, is believed to be growing more formidable every day.
"For Japan," the paper stated, "modernized industry is the inevitable means to offset her somewhat poor natural resources. However, when viewed by English eyes, Japanese industry without any doubt" con stitutes a competitor without whom We should be far better off. At the same time, it ts causing serious damage to our commercial interests the Far East, thanks to the depreciation of Japanese currency and to the cheapness of hand labour.
"The results of the depreciation in currency will disappear but the affects of the cheapness of labour will remain," the paper said.
'Analyzing the exceptional contions prevailing in the Japanese labour market, Mr. Fernand Maurette, assistant director of the International Labour Office stated' in an article Published in "The Times," "One ean-not state that the Japanese labourer underpaid, the writer
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