JAPAN: 10-DAY STRIKE PARALYSES SHIPPING INDUSTRY

Record ID: 342016

  • Title: JAPAN: 10-DAY STRIKE PARALYSES SHIPPING INDUSTRY
  • Date: 28th November 1965
  • Summary: 1. LV YOKOHAMA HARBOUR. SHIPS WAITING TO DOCK (3 SHOTS) 0.10 2. GV DESERTED DOCKSIDE 0.16 3. CU SIGN "THIS SHIP IS ON STRIKE" 0.18 4. SV CARGO WAITS TO BE LOADED (4 SHOTS) 0.26 5. GV SHIPS CREW STANDING IDLE 0.31 6. SV DESERTED SHIP 0.34 7. GV PAN. SHIPS OUTSIDE HARBOUR WAITING TO ENTER DOCKS 0.47 Initials RC/S/CR/PC Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 13th December 1965 12:00
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  • Location: YOKOHAMA, JAPAN
  • Country: Japan
  • Reuters ID: LVA4QSK0JZH899OAG5UFW1L290OQ
  • Story Text: NEARLY 400 SHIPS IN 52 MAJOR JAPANESE PORTS ARE IDLE TODAY (SUNDAY) - SECOND OF A 10-DAY STRIKE BY THE 134,000-STRONG ALL JAPAN SEAMEN'S UNION. THE UNION IS PRESSING FOR COST-OF-LIVING RISES AVERAGING ABOUT GBP10-STERLING PER MONTH.

    SHIPPING, BOTH INTER-COASTAL AND INTERNATIONAL, IS PARALYSED THROUGHOUT THE NATION. A SERIES OF LAST-DITCH CONFERENCES BETWEEN UNION OFFICIALS AND REPRESENTATIVES OF THE JAPAN SHIPOWNERS' ASSOCIATION FAILED TO BRIDGE THE GULF WHICH HAS SEPARATED LABOUR AND MANAGEMENT IN A LONG-STANDING WAGE DISPUTE. AN APPEAL BY PRIME MINISTER SATO TO BOTH SIDES TO SETTLE THE DISPUTE WITHOUT RESORTING TO STRIKE ACTION BROUGHT NOT RESULT. MR. SATO PREDICTED THAT A WIDESPREAD SHIPPING STRIKE WOULD SERIOUSLY AFFECT JAPAN'S LIVELIHOOD.

    SOME 1,500 SHIPS OF 260 COMPANIES COULD BE AFFECTED BY THE STRIKE OVER THE 10-DAY PERIOD, BUT JAPANESE SHIPS ON THE HIGH SEAS OR IN FOREIGN PORTS WERE NOT INCLUDED IN THE STOPPAGE. ALSO EXCLUDED WERE PASSENGER, EMIGRATION FLOATING FAIR SHIPS AND WHALERS.

    THE UNION HALTED ALL CARGO HANDLING EXCEPT ESSENTIAL SUPPLIES. ABOUT 70,000 TRANSPORT WORKERS HAVE THREATENED TO STOP OPERATIONS IN SYMPATHY WITH THE SEAMEN, WHILE HARBOUR WORKERS' UNIONS HAVE ALSO TOLD 700,000 MEMBERS TO BACK THE STOPPAGE. THE JAPANESE MINISTRY OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND INDUSTRY REPORTS THAT THERE ARE CURRENTLY ON HAND 20 DAYS' STOCKS OF CRUDE OIL, TWO WEEKS SUPPLY OF GASOLINE, 50 DAYS' STOCK OF IRON ORE AND TWO WEEKS' STOCK OF MATERIALS USED BY THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY.
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