This post presents page 288 of The History of the Myanmar Labour Movement by Thakin Lwin (Bagan Books, 1968).
Vocabulary
ကျောက်မီးသွေး ။ coal
ရပ်စဲ ။ terminate
ဆိုင်းငံ့ ။ await (developments, news, etc)
တူးဖော် ။ to dig up, excavate
ကြီးမှူး ။ to lead, direct
အနုမြူ ။ atom
ကန့်ကွက် ။ to object, protest
Translation
In West Germany in 1958, with the closing of a total of 40 work[places] in the coal industry a total of about 200,000 workers became unemployed and in 1966 a further 60,000 workers will be terminated from work. We await news about the signing of a temporary agreement concerning the issue of about 3,000,000 engineers and metal workers going on strike in February 1967. On March 11th of that year, a strike of 300,000 miners was a struggle [for] the demands to get a wage increase and permanent employment insurance.
And in Japan workers are confronting unemployment, wage reductions and an increase in the cost of food and drink. In Japan, the most powerful Japanese Federation of Labour Unions (Sohyo) led a protest movement against an atomic military camp to Japan [?] of the American imperialists in Vietnam, in which there were about 50 million workers. On February 27th 1966, in a demonstration of strength there were 2 million workers across Japan who protested the increase of commodity prices.
The aforementioned worker struggles are movements presently occurring in the 5 big capitalist countries, and similarly in the remaining capitalist countries workers' strikes and demonstrations are increasing year by year.
Among the causes of the emergence of strikes, mostly they have happened because of the problem getting wage increases, work time reductions, permanent employment, good workplace conditions and the right to free association, and [these reasons] clarify the above [cases of strikes].
In close to the past 100 years the acts of establishing workers' unions, making collective demands, and participating in strikes have been prohibited as being against the law...
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