Doro-Chiba Quake Report No.6
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Doro-Chiba Quake Report No.6 |
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Tsunami and Nuke Plant Blasts is no natural
disaster! The total number of the dead and missing people is already reaching
thirty thousands. As you may realize by the attached report of a municipal
workers of Sendai, a directly stricken area, people, among others aged
people, are dying at this very moment through fatal lack of water, foods,
medical treatment, etc. Added to this catastrophic conditions, a large
volume of high-level radioactive materials are leaking from the Fukushima
Daiichi nuclear plant and widely scattered over the inhabitants and
the earth of the whole adjoining region, while the nuclear authorities
are making acrobatic attempts to prevent meltdown of the radioactive
core, which might have already begun. In Kanto region, 200 kilometer far from the nuclear facilities, bottled water has disappeared from supermarket in fear of radioactive contamination. The government issued a forcible instruction to stop the shipment of green vegetables, such as spinach and cabbages. We’ve just got tragic information from Fukushima: a 64-year-old farmer, who was cultivating vegetables, committed suicide on March 29th. He had dedicated his life for more than 30 years in supplying cabbages of good quality to primary school pupils of his district through organic farming. Immediately before the moment of death, he is reported to have whispered, “It’s all finished with vegetables of Fukushima!” in his suffocating agony. The state and capital have driven local communities to the ultimate exhaustion and devastation, abandoned necessary construction of levees (while making repeated researches and studies over tsunami!) and kept building nuclear plants on the “earthquake-prone archipelago” with the only aim of pursuing profits and retaining nuclear power for nuclear armament in their possession. A large number of workers are thrown out of their workplaces, which were stricken by tsunami, or out of abandoned factories because of radioactive contamination. Not only in the affected areas but also in other regions, numerous factories are forced to shut down and workers face loss of jobs because the suppliers of parts were hit by the disaster in the stricken area. As a result, workers are thrown to the street without allowance for lost working days. It is a crime committed by the state and capital! We must angrily denounce the system-friendly, submissive leadership
of labor movement who has full responsibility for what has happened
and is happening to working class. Above all, Rengo (Japanese Trade
Union Confederation), which officially decided a policy of promoting
the construction of nuclear plants, declared in face of the present
disaster: “We express our respect and gratitude for the swift
and appropriate response of the government” “We are prepared
to be engaged in relief and restoration activities in unity to face
national crisis”. Denryoku-soren (Confederation of Electric Power
Related Industry Workers’ Unions of Japan) shamelessly demands
cooperation with TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) in power cut in
complete submission to capital. On the other hand, a “political
truce” was proposed by the headquarters of Kokuro (National Railway
Workers’ Union) and other organizations, which betrayed the struggle
of 1047 dismissed railway workers for reinstatement, saying: “For
the time being, we stop political move for the solution of the railway
issue”. People’s Earthquake Relief Center has been set up. It is an expression
of our determination to fight to live. We are resolved to stay in the
midst of the disaster. We don’t run away from the present adversity.
In establishing a close link with the anger of the affected friends,
we need to revitalize labor union as “an organization for workers
to live in face of difficulties”. All of our power must be gathered
on this task. We are fighting every moment to live for our
people 24 March, 2011 The city service workers are now fighting hard every moment to live for the sake of our colleagues, our people, our families and ourselves. We are heavily engaged in restoring electric, gas, water supply facilities and roads, and operating the shelters. Yesterday, my cell-phone rang when I was riding on my bicycle. It was from my fellow worker. He has gone out to his hometown to save his parents after the earthquake. His parents’ house was located in the port town and the tsunami rushed and crashed it ashore. At his call, I quickly stopped my bike to answer him. Excited, I called his name again and again into the phone but his phone seemed to have some problems and he couldn’t hear my voice. He had started to speak to me in a distressful and woeful tone. “On the day of the earthquake, I managed to get to my home town.
But my parents and the town where I was born and raised were all swept
away by the tsunami. I wanted to search for my father and mother, but
the ranger force of Self Defense Force sealed off the town and rangers
didn’t let me get close to the town. Until yesterday I was staying
at a shelter. I have been fighting hard with the people there, but at
last I became sick and sent to the hospital. Please forgive me for the
one-way conversation. I can’t hear your voice. I can’t even
know whether you can hear me or not. I hope to see you again someday….”
You can’t go and search for your parents because of the ranger force sealing your hometown. What on earth is it? I slumped on the road. What is “the 100,000-strong Self Defense Force relief operation” that the prime minister Naoto Kan proudly promoted? Kan announced that the troops were mobilized to conduct rescue and relief activities, but the whole point of it was the public security operation. The real aim of Kan is to crush the unity of workers who are rising up to fight to live. All those who are engaged in restoring the lifelines and taking charge of shelters are workers. Not the troops! People are all united and working together to live by themselves. On the other hand, however, even after the blast of the Fukushima No.1 plant and during a big after-quake continues in many times, Kan administration is still operating all other nuclear plants throughout the country, saying that it won’t immediately effect on human health. How dare Kan to say, “Let’s face the national crisis together”! What is the most important thing now to do is to crush Kan administration! It is not the time for workers to “restore capitalism” but to unite together and crush capitalism and create a workers’ society. And labor unions should stand at the forefront of this struggle. Dear friends of all over the country! Kan administration is sending the police and troops to the affected areas. Only workers and labor unions can do sincere and effective relief activities to send necessary goods and physical support. We are very much encouraged by the Emergency Appeal of Doro-Chiba issued just after the earthquake and the initial report to inform us that the members of Doro-Chiba stopped the attempt of outsourcing, which was planned by the Japan Railway Company to start from this April. To fight against the nuclear plants and the national mobilization is not the struggle of workers in the affected areas alone but it is a historical task of all workers throughout the country and all over the world. Now is the time for the Nationwide Movement of National Railway Workers
who has its organizations all through the country to put forth its whole
energy. Let’s unite together! Let’s unite and fight to actually
live!
DORO-CHIBA (DC): National Railway Motive Power Union of CHIBA
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