SOHYO DENOUNCES U.S. RODE IN VIETNAM
The 4,200,000-member General Council of. Japan Trade Unions [Sohyo] ended its twenty-eighth convention August 4 in Tokyo with a resolution pledging an "all-out fight against U.S. aggression in Vietnam and the Japan-South Korea normalization treaty."
The resolution denounced the U.S. for violating the 1954 Geneva agreement and for being responsible for the present situation in Vietnam, *
The only way to bring an end to the Vietnam war, declared the resolution, is through inmediate withdrawal of foreign’ troops from Vietnam and respect for its right of self-determination, =.
The giant trade-union federation charged the Japanese government with supporting the “unlawful U.S. aggression in Vietnam" and: said that efforts to revive and strengthen Japanese militarism were
becoming more manifest.
In a speech to the convention, Secretary | General Akira Iwai announced that Sohyo is planning to dispatch “international organizers" shortly to Afro-Asian and Latin-American countries. Their aim is to help solidify sentiment opposed to the war in Vietnam, .
At a press conference July 26 on the eve of. the convention, Iwai said that the Japan Socialist party should publicize concrete plans for a socialist revolution in Japan,
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