Honolulu Record, September 9, 1948, vol. 1 no. 6, p. 1

KIT Strike Ban BY MacArthur

TOKYO—The British Common­wealth and Chinese members of the Allied Council for Japan joined the Soviet Union in attacking Gen. Douglas MacArthur's July directive to the Japanese government to ban strikes by government employes.

The criticism came at a special council meeting where U. S. delegate William J. Sebald sought to answer charges by Soviet member Maj. Gen. A. P. Kislenko that the Mac­Arthur order violated the. Far Eastern Commission principles on labor unions and contradicted the terms of the Truman-Stalin-Attlee Potsdam declaration: Kislenko's
objections were announced Aug. 11. Both British and Chinese delegates hit the Japanese government's order depriving government workers of collective bargaining and strike rights.

The ban has also brought sharp repercussions inside the labor movement. A number of unions have struck in protest and MacArthur's chief labor advisor, James S. Killen, an AFL-official, handed in his resignation.