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Hyōgikai
was a trade union centre in Japan which operated from 1920. ''Hyōgikai'' was founded at a conference in Kobe on May 24–27, 1925.Beckmann and Okubo, pp. 87, 90. As of late 1925, ''Hyōgikai'' had 59 affiliated trade unions and around 35,000 members. The organization was affiliated with the Pan Pacific Trade Union Secretariat.Beckmann and Okubo, p. 91. When the organization was crushed in a government crackdown in the spring of 1928, it had 11 regional councils, 82 affiliated unions and around 23,000 members.Beckmann and Okubo, p. 159. Background ''Hyōgikai'' was founded as a continuation of the Reform Alliance, a group of 25 trade unions which merged out of the Eastern Local Council (a body that had separated itself from the Eastern Federation of the ''Sodomei'' trade union centre, but retained a direct affiliation to ''Sodomei''. The Eastern Local Council had been dissolved by ''Sodomei'', accused of being a communist plot), and on May 16, 1925 the Reform Alliance unions were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Labour-Farmer Party
The was a political party in the Empire of Japan. It represented the left-wing sector of the legal proletarian movement at the time.Mackie, Vera C. Creating Socialist Women in Japan: Gender, Labour and Activism, 1900–1937'. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. p. 137 Oyama Ikuo was the chairman of the party.Barshay, Andrew E. State and Intellectual in Imperial Japan: The Public Man in Crisis'. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. pp. 187–188 At the time the party was banned by the government in 1928, it was estimated to have around 90,000 members in 131 local organizations. The party was supported by the '' Hyōgikai'' trade union federation and the Japan Peasant Union. Foundation The ''Rōdōnōmintō'' was founded in March 1926 as a continuation of the Farmer-Labour Party (which had been founded in December 1925, but banned after only two hours of existence).Duus, Peter, John Whitney Hall, and Donald H. Shively. The Cambridge History of Japan 6 The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |