The trouble between Tokyo wrestlers and the Wrestling Association remains undecided. A number of police inspectors have interested themselves in the matter and tried to mediate between the parties at war, but thus far without any success. The wrestlers being very unwilling to take the Press into their confidence, it is very difficult to present an accurate view of the grievances brought by them against the managers of the Association, to whom they stand in the peculiar position of pupils and employees. But their is little doubt that the trouble at bottom is the revolt of labour against capital. The wrestlers, it seems to us, are certainly entitled to demand a more equitable system of distribution of profits than that now in force under which they are completely at the tender mercy of the grasping managers of the Association.

    The Spring exhibition of wrestling matches at the regular ring in Eko-in were to begin on Saturday, but owing to some misunderstanding that has arisen between wrestlers and managers, the programme was not carried out for the day. It is likely that the opening will be deferred for some time yet. The trouble is attributed to the dissatisfaction of the wrestlers with their pay. The old custom still remaining in full away among this circle, wrestlers stand in the relationship of pupils towards the managers who are all retired veterans that had once figured in the arena. Now the grand matches performed every year at the Ekoin, in the months of January and May, are undertaken at the risk of these veterans who fix the wages according to the record scored by each wrestler on the previous occasion. Whatever profit accruing from the performance after deducting the wrestlers' pays is divided up and pocketed by the managers who number a little over ten if we remember rightly. The pay for ten days' performance is little over 40 yen to a first class wrestler. But these who enjoy this emolument are few and far between, only two or three, others receiving far less. Of course it is utterly impossible for any wrestler to live on what he earns by the Ekoin performances. It is upon the tips and gifts they receive from their patrons an admirers, and the itinerant performances they give in local towns during the off time, that they manage somehow to make ends meet. The Ekoin performances having become unusually popular, the managers have of late been realizing large profits. The wrestlers not unreasonably insist that it is unfair to exclude them from their share of the financial success, and threaten going on a strike should their request be rejected. Hence the trouble.
    The latest development of the dispute is that the wrestlers demand an immediate reelection of the managers. The latter object to this, and the dispute still drags on with little prospect of a speedy settlement.