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
Sunday Worker, 4 March 1951, p. 4: Shall not happen again - save lives of McGee and the Trenton Six
Sunday Worker, 4 March 1951, p. 4: Harry Raymond on the execution of the Martinsville Seven in Virginia and the pending case of Willie McGee in Mississippi, framed as 'legal lynching'. Despite the catalogue title, the text contains no Indonesia, Gerwani or women's-council content.
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
Sunday Worker, 31 July 1955, p. 11: Lausanne congress sends message to mothers of all nations
Sunday Worker, 31 July 1955, p. 11: Federated Press report on the first World Congress of Mothers at Lausanne (7-10 July 1955), more than 1,000 women from 68 countries, which issued a manifesto calling for the defence of children against war and for banning atomic weapons. The OCR is partly garbled and shares the page
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