JAPANESE UNIONS TO SEND MATERIAL AID TO NORTH VIETNAM
The General Council of Japan Trade Unions [Sohyo], which represents 4,212,754 out of Japan's total organized workers of. 9,799,655, announced May 6 that the giant labor federation will send an "encouragement mission" to the workers of north Vietnam as an expression of solidarity in their struggle against U.S. aggression. .
The announcement was made by Sohyo's Secretary General Akira Iwai at the opening session of the twenty-eighth convention of the Japan Teachers Union at Mito.
He said that Sohyo is planning to send material aid, including medical supplies, to the north Vietnamese working masses,
Sadamitsu Miyanohara, chairman of the 600,000-member Japan Teachers Union [Nikkyoso] declared in the opening session of the convention that everything concerning Vietnam should be left up to the self=-determination of the people of Vietnam.
He called for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. forces from Vietnam. ,
Even if criticized for placing too much importance on struggles for political causes, the union should now rise for maintenance of world peace, Miyanohara said.
He added that the union would make an urgent appeal for peace addressed to the entire people and that the union executive would propose a drive to collect the signatures of 10,000,000 Japanese aspiring for world peace.