El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-05-29
JAPANESE MAKE
BID FOR TRADE
Of WORLD
Nipponese Ambitious to
Succeed Germany as In
dustrial Nation.
SHIPS TAKE PLACE
IN WORLD TRAFFIC

7 oNDON, Eng. May 29.-"Japan has
Il increased her foreign trade three
fold since the outbreak OF the
great war. She has abundant and
wen disciplined labor. gladly accept
ing about one tenth the rate asked
py the English workers. Her tex
tiles and silk goods sell from Ian
casnire to the heart Of Brazil Her
shipping lines are taking the place
IN world trade once held by Ger
many, writes F. A Mckenzie, in the
London Express.
The experienced East India mer-
cnant laughs at japanese cOmpeti-
llon. LneT VIII never DO anything
really big he tells you They are
commercial hogs, and want TO grab
everything for themselves You can
not trust them. Permanent business
cannot be built up without trust.
Lheir expansion Is mere flash in
the pan
Improves Methods.
The old timer IS partly right IN
ms 4acIs- But wholly wrong in his
conclusions The Japanese conduct
business according to a standard Of
their own, which Is not altogether
our standard. But their methods are
IMPROVING and every year we feel
their competition more This is the
more remarkable because Of the ire
mendous haudicaps they have i'm
posed on themselves.
The great Japanest Industrial or
carnations work hand and glove
with the government Cooperation
between politicians and traders, TO
the mutual interests OF both. is car
IleQ IN Japan at least as far as in
any country in the world. The mika-
DOS government, when 10 became
firmly established, recognized that
world greatness, and SO il started
10 FOSTER It. High protection heavy
subsidies, and liberal orders TO in
fant industries were inaugurated.
PICKED young men were sent at gov
eminent expense "a manufacturing
cenrers al over the world, particu-
larry 10 Englaud-to Newcastle and
Shetueld. Oldham and Bradford
Thamesside and Glasgow.
Labor Driven to Maximum.
A factory system was introduced !
and girl labor were driven TO the ]
maximum. Young women from the [
country came under contract TO the Z
great mills that spranE Up around /
pounds, paid about tWopence a day
and their food, housed sometimes in |
the toughest sheds, and worked u /
hours a day. The factories ran the Z
whole "a hours round, EeVen days a ]
week on two II hour shifts Here /
Wss a hOppy land where there were
no strikes. 70 unions, no organized |
labor troubles It was an Industrial
paradise-fOr the employers A few
people did try 70 introduce sOcialis-
tic doctrines among the workers.
they we're arrested in a bunch. con-
victed OF plotting against the en-
peror, and executed
The factories grew to a hundred
thousand workers, half million
workers. seven hundred thousand
workers. Eventually factory laws
had to be passed
AT the same time the Japanese
began TO make sure Of exclusive
markets outside their own county.
Building Own Ships
Europe, after a time, gradually
awakened to the fact that Japan was
building her own ships in place OF
buying them: that she was selling
TO our own customers that she was
making machinery not only for her
self, but for her neighbors and that
the output 81 the Osaka mills was
underselliugT Lancashire in Lanca- {
shire itself
Then came the war. The world
was now forced to 60 mainly TO two
countries for its supplies America
and Japan
Had Japan been five years further
forward she might then have made /
her position secure over half the ]
world But the opportunity came be-