Japan's social movement has gone Rightist, the metropolitan press said to-day in commenting on a recent series of defections from the Marxist the camp.
The executive committee of the Tokyo Transport Workers Union yesterday expelled more tham 30 members who were arrested in last month's police raids for alleged violation of the Peace Maintenance Ordinance. The committee also abjured class warfare and advocated cantillation and ce-operation between workers arid employers.
The Japan Council of Trade Unions has also gone on rétofd in favour of putting an end to strikes and promoting industrial ce-operation.
The strong National Pe&sánis' Union has announced it would. col-elaborate With the proletarian Social Masses Party in supporting the Konoye Cabinet.
To signify their severance from Lettist traditions; labour organizations have decided to abolish, May Day celebrations. Instead, a Japan Labour Day will be held on February li, simultaneously with the commemoration of the Empire Day. The reform.has been strongly advocated by the National Council of Patriotic Labour Unions.
The swing rightward in labour opinion followed a series of raids staged upon Leftist leaders and organizations in the middle of last month on instructions from Admiral Nobumasa Suetsugu, new Home Min-
Conditions are now safe enough in Tsingtao to permit parents of pupils at St. Giles' School to send their children back, it was learned here yesterday. A telegram was received by HM. Consulate in Shanghai from the British Consul in Tsingtao to the effect that conditions would seem to be entirely safe in Tsingtao, as the Japanese were in complete control, and there were no Chinese troops within some hundred miles. This information was passed on by the Shanghai consular authorities to Miss Keenan, who is charge of all Christmas holiday pupils who have been waiting in Shanghai ready to return to school when conditions permitted. at 2.30, 5.30 ang 8.00 p.m.
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