The Archive · 1938

Labour Laws Invoked

Seeking to control maximum and minimum wages of workers and conditions of employment, the Labour Bureau of the Ministry of Public Welfare today decided to invoke the necessary labour clauses of the national mobilization law.

After conferences with the Na tional Planning Board and obtaining Imperial' sanction the. Ministry will issue a decree to enforce labour regulations designed to produce the maximum "efficiency in war.

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"We must make it clear to the U.S.S.R. that the three-power pact is not of negative importance but of positive significance," he wrote. "It is a self-defence against the Bolshevist plague. The Soviets must know that we will not allow them to attack Japan if she were weakened by the Chinese war no more than we would allow them to strangle Nationalist Spain. All should realize that Italy will never be disinterested in the Far Eastern

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