Noda served as the chairman of the pro-communist national trade union centre Hyōgikai.
He completed his primary school studies and began working at the age of twelve.
He went on to serve as a fireman and joined the army, but was released from military service for health reasons.
[2] Noda and his wife were also founders of the clandestine Osaka Birth Control Study Society in 1923.
[3] When the pro-communist Hyōgikai trade union centre was founded in May 1925, Noda was elected as its chairman.