OBJECTS TO HANDLING U.S. WAR SUPPLIES
The 280,000-member Japanese National Railway Workers Union announced Octover 19 that it would begin work-torule tactics, effective the next day, in fifteen areas across the country where U.S. air force bases are located.
The aim is to alert the public to the mounting danger in these areas where munitions, aviation gasoline, rocket shells and napalm bombs are handled.
The Tokyo regional chapter of the union announced an immediate three-day slowdown struggle against a projected increase in U.S. air-forces tank trains.