General Employees' Union Education and Labor Department - General Employees' Union Education and Labor Department

...Although it was not yet the idea of ​​proletarian education that led to this, the teacher union movement began in earnest after the Great Depression in the early Showa period. First, in October 1929, the Elementary School Teachers' Federation was formed (its predecessor, the Education and Writers' Association, had joined Edkintern in 1929), which developed into the illegal Japan Education Workers' Union in November of the following year, and then in 1932, it became the General Employees' Union Education and Labor Department (Kyoro) under the umbrella of the National Council of Japanese Trade Unions, which was under the leadership of the Japanese Communist Party. While the Kyoro raised demands for improvements to the lives of education workers, it also promoted anti-war and peaceful education in opposition to the impending imperialist war. ...

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…これを導いたのはまだプロレタリア教育の思想ではなかったが，昭和初年の大恐慌後には教員組合運動が本格化する。まず29年10月，〈小学校教員連盟〉が結成され(この前身である教育文芸家協会は，1929年にエドキンテルンに加盟している)，翌30年11月に非合法の〈日本教育労働者組合〉へと発展し，さらに32年には日本共産党の指導下にあった日本労働組合全国協議会傘下の〈一般使用人組合教育労働部(教労)〉となった。〈教労〉は，教育労働者の生活改善の要求を掲げる一方で，迫りくる帝国主義戦争に抗して反戦平和の教育をおしすすめた。…

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