JAPANESE WORKERS EXPRESS SOLIDARITY WITH VIETNAMESE AND KOREANS
Osaka, Japan
Each spring the Japanese workers customarily undertake econ omic struggles. They began this year, too, as usual, [See World Outlook May 7.] But something different has been added. Besides seeking economic demands, the Japanese workers are votcing their disapproval of U.S. intervention in the Vietnamese civil war and ; they are condemning the negotiations between the Japanese and South Korean governments, which have very reactionary objectives,
A meeting was sponsored here April 21 by the Joint Struggle Committee of the All Tele-Communications Workers! Unions to protest the escalation of the war and the negotiations with the Pak regime. The assembly passed three declarations -- a message of solidarity with the South Vietnam Front of National Liberation, .a protest-to the American embassy and a protest to the Japanese government.
The texts of these statements, which are good examples of the feeling of the workers from one end of Japan to the other, are as follows:
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* To the South Vietnam National Front of Liberation
We Japanese workers cannot contain our deep anger over the violent aggression of American imperialism in Vietnam.
We express our solidarity with the Vietnam National Front of Liberation which stands at the head of the Vietnamese people in their heroic struggle for national liberation in face of American domination and violence.
American imperialism, which has now taken off the mask, is sinking in the mire and threshing about in. vain. .
The workers and peoples throughout the world, including us Japanese workers, will never forgive American imperialism for its oppressive rule over South Vietnam and its unjust bombings in North Vietnam.
Moreover, we will never acquiesce in the existence itself of American imperialism.
At the same time we must take note that Japanese monopoly capitalism, the enemy of the Japanese workers, is beginning to lift its head in the Asian crisis centering around Vietnam. The Japanese monopoly capitalists are lending aid to American imperialism in the comnon interest of the two powers ~- to defend their mutual position
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as masters. And in the Far East they.will reappear fully. clad.in the “armor of imperialism.
- You, fighters of the Vietnamese National Front of Liberation, struggling heroically in the delta of the Mekong!
Lo We Japanese workers pledge that we will fight’ against our own enemy at home, that is, the Japanese monopoly capitalists and-American imperialism which is utilizing Japan as a military base; and we express our solidarity with you.
Let us fight together to the end for peace and for the workers and peoples all over the world!
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ad Protest Sent to the American Embassy
American Ambassador Mr. Edwin 0. Reischauer:
The aggression against South Vietnam and the bombing of North Vietnam committed by the USA exhaust the catalog of inhuman outrages and constitute an insane violation of peace.
We who wish peace and happiness to all the world can no longer stand your mad and immoral actions.
Today in our modern society it is ‘the unquestionable right of all peoples in the world to determine their own fate and to lead peaceful and happy lives. This right is inviolable.
Whoever infringes this right is an aggressor and our enemy as human beings.
In South Vietnam, you Americans are committing the following crimes: You Americans rode roughshod over the Vietnamese people, forced them to line up with your "anti-Communist" military policy and your “divide and rule" policy of openly obstructing the unification of Vietnam despite the deepest wishes of the Vietnamese people. And you reply to the people's demand for self-determination with violence. ;
You Americans should realize that America will have to fight against the peoples of the whole world if you continue your reactionary policy of murdering and moving toward the crisis of a world war.
We support the struggle of the South Vietnamese people and demand that you put a stop to your bombing of North Vietnam. ‘and that you immediately withdraw from South Vietnam,
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Protest Sent to the Japanese Government _
We assembled here in protest against negotiations between the Japanese and Korean governments and against American aggression in Vietnam, and in solidarity with the. heroic | Struggles of the Korean and Vietnamese peoples;
Do hereby bitterly accuse the Japanese. government of playing .@ criminal role in the Far East with its Japan-Korean. Negotiations and its aid to American aggression in Vietnam.
It is clear that the Korean people have been fighting at the risk of their lives against the Japan-Korean Negotiations and in resistance to the Pak government whose oppressive rule has reached extreme limits, .
Disregarding the vehement objections of the Korean people, the Japanese government and the monopoly capitalists are forcibly pressing the negotiations. .Needless to say, the government and the capitalists intend to keep the Korean people from unifying their country and they aim at nailing Korea.down as a base in their “anti- Communist" policy. At the same time they seek to secure the highly profitable exploitation of the Korean people.
To establish friendly relations between the Korean and Japan= ese people, we believe that the road does not lie through the Japan- Korean Negotiations but through Joining | the Korean people in struggling against these negotiations, _. Loe
In addition, the Japanese government is playing a criminal role against the South Vietnamese people. It is helping America!s puppet government in South Vietnam and permitting Japanese citizens to become involved in the war as seamen on American landing craft.
The Japanese government, in fact, is entering the war of aggression in Vietnam on the American side.
We hereby express our determination to work in common with all the Japanese workers to overthrow this criminal government by -force and to fight on the side of the Korean and Vietnamese peoples.