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Show LABOR TO INQUIRE i INTOJAP ISSUE! Gompers Directed to Investigate Inves-tigate Whole Problem WASHINGTON'. March . By direction di-rection of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor, now In session here. President Samuel Oompers Is to investigate the whole Japanese ami oriental industrial and labor problem with a view to determining de-termining whether the restrictions imposed upon American workers and cap. tul In the Far East are not more severe than those imposed in this country on orientals. . Union officials said today they had received information that the land , and immigration laws in Japan were more restrictive thun those in I America and that American laborers seeking employment m the orient were compelled by law to give up trade secrets. "There is so much agitation about the Jupanese question in thia coun-i coun-i try," said one labor official, "that we feel it is a national problem and want to ascertain the facts. We do not feel that Japan is Justified in making such an outcry against our laws when she has more restrictive regulations at home." |