History of Myanmar's labour movement (287/505)

This post presents page 287 of The History of the Myanmar Labour Movement by Thakin Lwin (Bagan Books, 1968).

Vocabulary:

အာကာသ ။ sky, space,
စူးစမ်းမှု ။ investigation, enquiry
နိမ့်ကျ ။ decline
ကျင်း ။ dockyard
ရေးနော့ ။ ?
ကားရုံ ။ garage
သံမဏိ ။ steel
စံချိန် ။ record (of highest performance)
စက်ပစ္စည်း ။ machine parts
ပြည်လုံးကျွတ် ။ countrywide
ဆင်နွှဲ ။ to participate
အလားတူ ။ similarly

Translation:

In the United States of America, according to a government census it is said that in 1965 a total of 3,860 strikes involving a total of 1,480,000 workers and caused an impact of a total of about 23.1 million lost work days. The largest strike locations were at train worker departments, space research departments and automobile production factories. Workers' important demands were [for] wage raises equal to the rise of commodity prices.

In France in 1965 due to workers' strikes there was an impact of a total of 1 million lost work days, and workers' main demands were an increase in wages, work time reduction and permanent work. And due to the government's Debre Economic Plan, aside from causing a decline in the of status of workers [the government] opposed the aforementioned project, which the 2 big worker federations [had demanded] in unison with the increase of workers' living cost. In Germany in February and March 1966, a strike of dockyard workers, 12,000 garage workers, metal and steelworks workers and train workers took place.

In Italy in 1965 the strikes that occurred caused an impact of about 60 million lost work days. And in 1966 the strikes that took place each month exceeded the record [of all strikes] for the whole of 1965. Especially, with the arrival of the unemployment problem, within 10 years 15 million workers had to migrate to foreign countries and to all regions. Within the coming five years it is estimated that the unemployed population will increase a further 25 per cent. On February 1st 1966, about 1,200,000 workers from ship building work, metal and steelwork, automobile production work and machine parts production works participated in 24-hour-long countrywide strikes. Similarly, a great countrywide strike of sugar works [workers] occurred.