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When Speaker Komakichi Matsuoka cried: "Speed it up," an irate representative staggered toward the rostrum, grabbed the chief Diet guard by the necktie and .slapped him over the head. The lawmaker was ejected...
Superficially, the new Japanese labor movement looks like a blurred carbon of the U.S. model. The N.F.L.U. came back under one of its old leaders-dignified, Christian, 59-year-old Komakichi Matsuoka, who has been called the "William Green of Japan" and hates Communists just as much. A more radical group promptly established the N.C.I.U. as a Japanese counterpart of the C.I.O., made a smart but little-known newspaperman named Katsumi Kikunami its chairman. Kikunami (who had a Nisei nephew killed in Italy fighting with the U.S. Army), though no Red himself, accepted Communist support. From this springboard...
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