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GA-02341 1947-08-10 Sunday Worker rel A licensed

Indonesian Minister of Labor is a woman, Mrs. S. K. Trimurti

Sunday Worker, 10 August 1947, p. 8: Indonesian Minister of Labor is a woman, Mrs S.K. Trimurti

Sunday Worker, 10 Aug 1947, p. 8: the OCR contains only a crossword puzzle (clues and grid), so the catalogued article on S. K. Trimurti as Indonesia's woman Minister of Labor cannot be read or checked. No Gerwani/Gerwis content is verifiable.

GA-02342 1950-01-01 Sunday Worker rel B licensed

Asian Women Tell the U.S.A. (Asian Women's Conference, Peking)

Sunday Worker, 1 January 1950, p. 2: Asian women tell the U.S.A. (Asian Women's Conference, Peking)

Sunday Worker, 1 Jan 1950, p. 2: page with several items; the relevant article, datelined Peking, reports the Asian Women's Conference where women leaders from 15 Asian countries, including Indonesia, Burma and India, pledged struggle against imperialism. Delegates said conditions in Burma and Indonesia were alike unde

GA-02324 1950-04-17 Daily Worker rel C licensed

I Saw Mao Tse-tung: A New World Voyage (Delegate's report on the Conference of the Women of Asia, Peking)

Daily Worker, 17 April 1950: I saw Mao Tse-tung - delegate's report on the Conference of the Women of Asia, Peking

Page 5 of the Daily Worker (New York, 17 Apr 1950) carrying Betty Millard's first article on the Peking Conference of the Women of Asia, organised by the WIDF. She describes the train journey from Moscow with delegates including a Dutch woman active against arms shipments to Indonesia. OCR is garbled and the article co

GA-02325 1952-05-27 Daily Worker rel B licensed

20 Nations Pick Delegates for Asia Peace Parley (list naming president of Indonesian Women's Movement)

Daily Worker, 27 May 1952: 20 nations pick delegates for Asia peace parley

Page 4 of the Daily Worker (New York, 27 May 1952) with a roundup of 20 countries naming delegates for the Asian Peace Conference preparatory meeting in Peking. The Indonesian list includes a member of Parliament named as president of the Indonesian Women's Movement ('Olpuwarti' in garbled OCR), alongside SOBSI, Lekra-

GA-02344 1953-06-07 Sunday Worker rel B licensed

Issues absorb Women's World Meet (WIDF Copenhagen Congress)

Sunday Worker, 7 June 1953, p. 4: Issues absorb Women's World Meet (WIDF Copenhagen Congress)

Sunday Worker, 7 June 1953, p. 4: report on the opening of the WIDF World Congress of Women in Copenhagen, with debates on peace and children and delegates from many countries, including Burma, Japan and the Philippines. Indonesia appears only in a speech listing the Dutch in Indonesia among colonial powers; no Indones

GA-02345 1953-06-28 Sunday Worker rel B licensed

World Congress of Women, Copenhagen (Indonesian delegates)

Sunday Worker, 28 June 1953, p. 12: World Congress of Women, Copenhagen (Indonesian delegates)

Sunday Worker, 28 June 1953, p. 12: account of the WIDF World Congress of Women in Copenhagen, describing delegates in the lobby (including 'exquisite Indonesians') and calls for peace. A moving scene has Indonesian and Dutch women embracing after a Dutch delegate said her people fought for liberty everywhere; Vietnam,

GA-02326 1955-04-26 Daily Worker rel C licensed

Bandung Notebook: The Spirit in the Streets (Ralph Parker from Bandung)

Daily Worker, 26 April 1955: Bandung notebook - the spirit in the streets (Ralph Parker)

Page 2 of the Daily Worker (New York, 26 Apr 1955) with Ralph Parker's 'Bandung Notebook' on the Asian-African Conference: Indonesian hosts, students, land and independence hopes. A separate item reports 27 doctors' protest over Claudia Jones's imprisonment, citing a WIDF report. Indonesian women appear only in a fragm

GA-02328 1956-07-24 Daily Worker rel C licensed

Women Unionists from 42 Lands Hold Conference in Budapest (Indonesian delegate on equal pay)

Daily Worker, 24 July 1956: Women unionists from 42 lands hold conference in Budapest

Page 4 of the Daily Worker (New York, 24 Jul 1956) reporting a Budapest conference of women trade unionists from 42 countries called by the WFTU, which demanded equal pay and opportunities and paid maternity leave. An unnamed delegate from Indonesia is cited on women workers being treated as cheap labour. Gerwani is no

GA-02329 1969-06-17 Daily World rel B licensed

Women's Congress Cheers Plea for a Free Vietnam (WIDF Helsinki congress; women tortured in Indonesian prisons)

Daily World, 17 June 1969: Women's congress cheers plea for a free Vietnam (WIDF Helsinki congress)

Page 10 of the Daily World (New York, 17 Jun 1969) with a Beatrice Johnson report on the WIDF World Congress of Women in Helsinki. Vietnamese NLF delegate Nguyen Thi Binh appeals for US withdrawal, and the congress hears that hundreds of women are being tortured in camps and prisons in Greece, Indonesia, Spain and else

GA-02331 1975-07-02 Daily World rel C licensed

Mexico Conferees Tie Women's Freedom to Economic Problems (Women under capitalism; Indonesian delegate)

Daily World, 2 July 1975: Mexico conferees tie women's freedom to economic problems

Page 10 of the Daily World (New York, 2 Jul 1975) with a special report from the UN International Women's Year Conference in Mexico City. Delegates from Italy, Fiji, Norway and Indonesia describe discrimination against women workers under capitalism, including lower pay and unemployment; tensions between US feminists a