Nuclear waste protest made

Press, 4 February 1982, Page 3

Nuclear waste protest made

From BRUCE ROSCOE in Tokyo The president of the Federation of Labour (Mr W. J. Knox) has made strong calls against the Japanese Government’s plans to dump nuclear waste in the Pacific ocean at a Tokyo conference of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. Mr Knox, who arrived in Tokyo on January 31 to attend the regional executive board meeting of the I.C.F.T.U.’s Asian regional organisation, said that if the Japanese Government wished to dump nuclear waste, it should dump it at home, just as the French

Government should test its nuclear weapons at home. After Tuesday’s conference session, Mr Knox said he had been assured by the president of the Japanese Confederation of Labour, Mr Tadanobu Usami, that Japanese workers were “just as concerned as we are” about the nuclear dumping plans, which the confederation also opposed. A resolution of the I.C.F.T.U.’s Asian conference calling for a scrapping of the dumping plans would be presented to the. science and technology agency of the Japanese Government, according to Mr Hajime Inoue, a representative of the Labour Confederation’s I.N.T.L. Department.