1930년대 전반 일본노동조합총평의회의 한인조합원 운동 - 일본 중부지방의 사례를 중심으로－

Abstract

This study examines the movement of Korean laborers under the General Assembly of Japanese Labor Unions (hereinafter as “Chongpyong”) mainly in the central region of Japan, which acted as a "legal" labor organization in the first half of the 1930s. The Chongpyong was a nationwide labor organization founded in 1931 in the aftermath of the Great Depression, which had adversely affected the Japanese economy. There were many Korean union members in the union of the central provincial council, known hereinafter as “Chongpyong Jungbu.” In 1932 and 1933, the total number of Korean union members in the Chongpyong Jungbu was two-thirds of the total. In particular, all members of the free labor union of the central region (hereinafter as “Jungbu Jayunojo”) were Korean workers. In 1934, only the Jungbu Jayunojo was in the Chongpyong Jungbu. From 1931 to 1934, the Korean leaders in the Chongpyong Jungbu were actively supporting the Korean workers' rights movement in the central region. At the end of 1934, the Chongpyong Jungbu was transformed into the National Council of the Japanese Labor Unions (hereinafter as "Jeonpyong"). But in 1935, the union of the central provincial council of the Jeonpyong belonged to unions that were like Chongpyong Jungbu. The Jungbu Jayunojo was also included, and most union members were Korean. In 1935, the Jungbu Jayunojo took the lead in the struggle against the national discrimination remarks of the director of the Ozone registry, which had been a significant problem in Nagoya City.