The Archive · 1922

Osaka Labour Riot

"Ca' Canny" Movement Ending in Dismissals and Disorder Tokio, June The Osaka Iron Works on Sunday evening notified all the workers in the finishing, electric, blacksmith, casting and machinery departments to stop working for the present on account of their taiyo (go-slow) practice, and that no wages would be paid during that time.

This morning the employees of these departments, about 700 in all, assembled in the Company's compound, and besieging, the shipbuilding and engineering sheds called upon the men there to leave their work and join them in the taiyo demonstration.

The police arrested some of the demonstrators, but finally all the employees were forced to stop work and the company was obliged to close the whole plant.

In consequence of this the completion of two destroyers and one special service boat, now in course of construction, wu! be delayed.—Renter.

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