JAPAN: participate rally against PM tanaka efforts at parl reform

Record ID: 215275

  • Title: JAPAN: participate rally against PM tanaka efforts at parl reform
  • Date: 14th May 1973
  • Summary: 1. General view of the rally at Shiba park. 2. A lot of red flags showing participating labour unions. 3. Mr. Ikko Kasuga, secretary general of Democratic Socialist party delivers a speech. 4. He continues speech. 4. Slogans hangover over the rally. 5. various shots of participants from various unions. 6. different sho
  • Embargoed: 29th May 1973 13:00
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  • Location: Tokyo
  • Country: Japan
  • Reuters ID: LVA69I6M53CARUXGPTDVZ0BV1M0D
  • Story Text: About 3,000 labour unionists from automobile, textiles, chemical, railway workers and other assembled at Shiba Park, centre of the city tonight ( Monday ) to protest against the government's small block election area system and against Premier Tanaka's policy under the auspices of Democratic Socialist Party ( No. 5 political party ). After the had a rally demanding the governments cancellation of idea, they demonstrated the city to the diet building where Mr. Ikko Kasuga, Secretary-General of Democratic Socialist Party greeted the demonstrators together with other members of the party.
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