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Maids who were here in the dog bays of the thirties claim that it was the union that proved the key to their present satisfaction with their jobs. From 1940, to the present, the history of the Employees' Representative Union Showa a steady oroison of hours and increase in wages until now, at 20 hours and $.96 an hour, they are as well off as any other college maids in the country...
...much political responsibility had three years of U.S. occupation brought to Japan? Not enough to keep Tokyo's Kosuge prison from bulging last week with financiers and high government officials involved in the Showa Denko bribery case...
...Showa Denko Co., cause of Ashida's downfall, is Japan's biggest postwar producer of chemical fertilizer. It received nearly 3 billion yen in loans from the Japanese Reconstruction Finance Bank-two-thirds of the total allocation for fertilizer industry loans. In return, Showa Denko spent at least 200 million yen in bribes to government officials, politicians and financiers, and for illegal expenses...
...Closet. Politicians have always been bought and controlled in Japan; but no prewar scandals revealed such spectacular corruption as the Showa Denko case. Japanese newspaper readers began to laugh when cops flushed Banboku Ono, secretary general of the Democratic Liberal party, out of a linen closet in an inn in Kyoto where he was in hiding. They laughed again when Cabinet Member Takeo Kurusu rushed into print with an announcement that he, personally, was not involved with Showa Denko. Next week government agents raided Kurusu's home and slapped him into Kosuge...
...leaders of Japan's four major parties last week got together to bargain for posts in the new cabinet. Cynical Japanese newsmen drew up and published a roster of their own, made up entirely of high officials now held in Kosuge prison. Just then, police announced the latest Showa Denko arrest: Kosuge's Warden Ito was charged with accepting bribes from his Oh-mono to help them communicate with their colleagues still outside...