The Archive · 1929

NEW PARTY "FORMED IN JAPAN

Eta or Social Outeasts to Contest Next Election Tokyo, Nov. 14.

political sensation has been created by the announcement made on Wednesday by the leaders of the Suiheisha, an organization of former Eta class, which is popularly regarded as a band of social outcasts, to the effect that they are planning] to organize.a political party of their own, styled the Nippon Jiyato or the Japan Liberal Party. It is said that the Suiheisha is going to inaugurate the new political party: Kyoto this year in order to be able to run candidates of their own in the coming general election which expected to be hold sooner or later.

The new political party to be created would be proletarian' in its nature and would have 426,000 members of the Suiheisha men. Leaders Of the Suiheisha political movement contend: that they would be able to Jain at least 60 seats in the coming general election.—Rengo,

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