One Million Japanese Strike Against U.s. Aggression

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In the biggest political strike in Japan since the war, nearly a million Japanese workers stopped work on Octobet 21st, in protest against U.S. aggression in Vietnam. The strike, called by Japan's Sohyo trade unions and the National Council of Independent Trade Unions was preceded by a series of mass meetings all over Japan, and demonstrations in which there were a number of clashes with police. Japan's coal-miners led the strike with all of them staying out for 24 hours, while railwaymen, teachers, Civil servants and others went on strike for shorter periods. A statement by the Japanese Socialist Party said the success of the strike showed that the Japanese people were opposed to Premier Sato's policy of co-operation with the U.S. and its aggression in Vietnam. The strike was all the more significant as it took place in defiance of the Japanese Government's threats to punish workers joining what it termed an "illegal political strike",