National Workers Rally
Reinstate Fired 1,047 National Railway Workers!
Stop Outsourcing of Railway Jobs!
Stop Abe’s “Collective Self-Defense”—Constitutional
Revision and War!
In Solidarity with People in Fukushima, Abolish All Nuclear
Power Plants!
Sponsored by:
Solidarity Union of Japan Construction and Transport Workers Kansai Area Branch (Kan-nama)
Metal and Machinery Workers’ Union in Osaka (Minato-Godo)
National Railway Motive Power Union of Chiba (Doro-Chiba)
Nation-wide Campaign of National Railway Struggle
Speakers include:
Korean Confederation of Trade Unions Seoul Regional Counsel
United Teachers Los Angeles
Fukushima DelegationTime: Sunday, November 2, 2014, noon
Venue: Hibiya Open-Air Concert Hall,Hibiya Koen
Contact: doro-chiba@doro-chiba.org
Web site: http://www.geocities.jp/nov_rally/

November 2 National Workers’ All-out Rally
For International Workers’ Solidarity!
Stop War and Privatization!
Let’s Establish Militant Labor Unions in Workplace Everywhere!
Now we stand at a crossroad of history. Abeadministration is rushing for war: the cabinet decision on
July 1 to admit the exercise of the right of collective
defense was taken in a way like a coup d’état in a flagrantviolation of the Japanese Constitution. It turns Japan intoa war state, inevitably setting free a wild drive at home todestroy all the existing social order and system which wasbrought forth after World War II. Labor rights, freedomof assembly and association, freedom of speech and thesecrecy of means of communication would be swept
away and public education would become the targets oftotal dismantling. Capitalism in death agony is alreadyconducting brutal warfare everywhere in the world:
Palestine, Iraq, Ukraine and others.
Abe administration is intent to open the last door to totalcasualization, free hand to dismissal, deregulation onwork-time, dismantling of labor rights. More than 20
million workers, who are thrown into irregular
employment in these decades, are raising their angry
voices with a demand: “Let us live.” Japan Policy
Council is demanding a large-scale privatization of thebusiness of local governments with a sensational reportwhich alarms that 896 municipalities are on the brink ofextinction. Social security system, medical system andpublic education are now exposed to brutal attack ofdisintegration.
With an aim of restarting nuclear power plants andpromoting their constructions, the real facts in affected
Fukushima are concealed by the central as well as
prefectural governments. An extraordinarily hugeamount of radioactive contamination never experienced
in human history is expanding and giving devastating
damage to the life of the people of Fukushima. They arethus ignored, betrayed and abandoned even three years
after the disaster.
Furious voices of people are mounting day by day
everywhere and in every layer of the population. It isurgent for us all to revive labor unions in each workshop.
Let’s crush Abe administration by the united power ofworkers!
What motivated the annual November Workers’ Rally
was the unjust and reactionary judgment of the Tokyo
District Court on May 28, 1998 which ruled the dismissalof 1,047 national railway workers at the time of theDivision and Privatization of Japan National Railways
was quite legal and was not unfair labor practice in spiteof apparent discrimination. We, three co-sponsoring labor
unions, shared anxiety and anger for this juridical move,that if we allowed such an outrageous court decision
Japanese labor movement would suffer a devastating

setback. Division and Privatization of JNR was actually
the largest onslaught on labor movement in the post-war
period of Japan.
We have made up our mind to crush this capitalist attack
and to take back militant labor movement in our own
hands. The surrender of labor leaders committed by the“political settlement” in 2010 was fought back andreactionary trend was reversed by the winning of theTokyo District Court ruling in 2012 on the unfair labor
practice, upheld by the Tokyo High Court ruling in 2013.
The struggle continues while the case has been brought
to the Supreme Court.
We have already made a fresh start for advancement ofour own union activity. Kan-Nama is engaged inestablishing an industrial movement to confrontmonopolistic structure of the industry through organizing
ready-mixed concrete workers and other related workers
into the union. Minato-Godo is fighting against Osaka
Mayor Hashimoto, who intends to suppress and break uplabor rights, with a slogan: “Unity is our life”, which inpractice means to organize workers beyond the wall ofcorporation into a broad regional union. Doro-Chiba haslaunched a new struggle organizing workers who areemployed in sub-contract companies to make a unitedstruggle with JR main body workers against outsourcing
attacks of JR companies following the Division andPrivatization of JNR.
National Railway Motive Power Union of Mito (DoroMito) waged strikes protesting the policy of local governments as well as JR Company which promotes nuclear
power at the sacrifice of the life of people of Fukushima.
The Nation-wide Campaign of National Railway
Struggle is calling for a creation of new movement toexpose the anti-working class nature of the Division andPrivatization of JNR which triggered the systematic andoverall destruction of labor rights.
The November National Workers’ All-out Rally has beenpromoting an epoch-making development ofinternational solidarity through confronting neo-liberal
offensives with a victorious view before us.
Now is the time we liberate all our power accumulated
through 16 years’ endeavor together with fighting friends
and colleagues all over Japan. Stop privatization and war!
Let’s revive militant labor movement! Take back workers’
unity! Go ahead in front of the anger and anxiety ofworkers for the dangerous present trend and future andgather their anger into action!
Join our November 2 National Workers’ All-out Rally.
We ask your endorsement and participation.