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Akira Iwai, 38, secretary-general of Sohyo, a federation of 22 left-wing labor unions with a membership of 3,500,000. On finishing junior high school, handsome, hard-driving Iwai worked as a grease monkey on the Japanese National Railways. After the war. he first won the leadership of a youth section of the union, then became a hard-boiled strategist in a series of railway strikes. Nine of the 22 Sohyo unions -including the railroaders-are run by "secret" Communists, and they supply much of the marching manpower in the blocks-long demonstrations. Iwai's boys also...
...olde brewery is built and operated by Schaefer beer; Elsie the Borden cow is the most conspicuous resident of a Midwestern farm; the Bank of New York operates regular banking facilities (the building is ancient, but the interest is modern); the clocks in the Chicago and San Francisco railway stations bear the monogram of the Hamilton Watch Co. Nonetheless, three staunchly anticapitalist preview visitors were impressed; they were reporters from the Soviet Union's Tass news agency. Last week the Kremlin announced plans for a Moscow amusement park-to be called either Wonderland or Pioneer Republic-built...
...Tokyo residence, where 500 police waited nervously under a green flag reading "Dear Students, Please Do Not Enter." The mob pulled down an iron gate, temporarily captured five riot trucks and launched a lusty exchange of stickwork that left 83 policemen and 20 students injured. Next targets were the railway stations, where the students joined the big Red-tainted labor union Sohyo in setting up a general strike for the following morning. The method: strangling commuter traffic by kidnaping motormen...
...their second haul, department men arrested an artist named Valerian losifovitch Labzin in the act of turning over two heavy foot lockers to a charwoman on a platform in the Kursk railway station just before a train to the Urals pulled out. Inside the boxes were 1,000 small icons, 1,000 prayer leaflets, and 2,400 little crosses on chains, which the charwoman was to have taken with her to the Caucasus. Artist Labzin turned out to be a hardened criminal in Soviet eyes; he had two previous convictions for "underground printing of religious literature,'' which...
...revenues of $347.6 million, while the B. & O. earned $14.8 million. As a rich dowry, the B. & O. would bring its 42.2% stock interest in the Reading Co., through which it indirectly controls the Central Railroad of New Jersey, and its 43% stock interest in the Western Maryland Railway...