Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-08-31

ed and assured then Japan should Sc
cede from the conferences.
The great internal strength Of ia
pan Is it's patriotic dnanmity in the
time Of crisis, coupled with g. ten
acity and q national patience that
never seems to wear Itself OUT, The
opYDsation parties g.1ttte sapprcysd the.an,
FED States and declared that tho n1ne
had arrived to present "a absolutely
united. front "A coalition ministry vas
talked OF to better assure this end,
just as in France before, the great
war thes"grand ministry" was formed
under Poincare when there was dam
ger Of trouble with Germany.
The general situation here ove ex-
ternal political matters was compli-
! Gated in an important way internally
/ by h sudden effort of some 10000
ship workers at Kobe to set up d
~socJalistic system of workmen's con-
troll in great shipbui.ding plants, in
that city. : The men demanded con
troll Of an industrial commission
formed of .workmen. a six-honr day,
Ea& system of pensions and, generally,
better working conditions. This SIT
uhtion was partly the result Of the
high cost Of living which Is greater
here than any place In the world, and
partly the result of absorbing OF west
ern, socialism as recently manifested
by Italian workmen in their attempts
to s~yndicalize Italian factories, The
Kobe plants which were building war
ships for Japan YER shut down and
troops and b~luejackets were called
out to guard naval property and main
tain order.
One Of the most significant articles
on the international, conference called
by President Harding was printed in
the Chugai aShogyo, a leading metro
politan newspaper. which is usually
we'll informed. and is believed to re-
fleet the views Of the big business
interests.
Said the journal: The privy coun,
cl has taken the matter very seri-
ously and has asked various ques-
although the stxictest secrecy is
maintained we learn Indirectly that
the prtvy council does noe feel Opt
f1istic about the matter, as is gener-
ally reported In the privT council
the discussion ccnters around three
points:
"(1) Although it approves OF the
limitation of ornaments, what is the
nature OF the questions to be dis
cussed regarding the Pacific?
SOD What are the reasons for
bringing Far Eastern questions within
the scope Of the conference :?
y ":S3) If Japan participates In such
4 conference, what Will be the respon-
sbthties@of It's representatives.
Privy Council Views
1.-THE Views of the pEw council
may be summarized Is follows: v
An understanding between Great
Britain and America to net In con-
cert is behind the plan for Including
Far Eastern questions within the
scope of the conference. As China
bring up. ali sorts Of questions Affect
ing h~ef4Srelations with Japan these
questions will. encroach upon oUr vest
ed interests IN China.
Even II America and Britain do
not subscribe to the Chinese claims
entirely, 1t is not believed that they
will make efforts for a solution favor
able to Japan and thus q fresh imr
brpklio will be created in connection
with Far Eastern questions. the result
of which viii be to- check Japan's
Legitimate development IN China.
Thus Japan will be faced with q
shortage of fnew materials to provide
foEs her growing population. 10 Al
though Japan has OF course mo- ola
section TO participation in the pro
fposed conference. there IL nosnecee-
dty on bringing up Far Eastern
III America. insists in putting for
ward her claims Regarding these qucs-
ltions, Japan, before 5disc1issinx. them;
mAy properly bring up her demands
Tor anseconomtc open, door and free
dom OF emigration Tor all countries,
S0r ~ would. not be i1ust tossdiscuas
Far NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. alone. if ia
pans claims : rot conndered.
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