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GA-02838 1956 WIDF rel C licensed

An Important Contribution in the Struggle for Women's Rights: The World Conference of Women Workers, Budapest 1956

World Conference of Women Workers, Budapest 1956 (WIDF issue)

Issue of Women of the Whole World (no. 105, 1956) on the World Conference of Women Workers in Budapest, 14-17 June 1956 (497 delegates, 44 countries): reports on wage discrimination, working mothers, African women, Latin America, plus a contents list pointing to the Indonesian delegate's speech. This page itself says l

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-02781 1964 rel A licensed

Working Women Shape Their Future: 2nd International Trade Union Conference on the Problems of Working Women, Bucharest, 11-16 May 1964

Working Women Shape Their Future: 2nd International Trade Union Conference on Working Women, Bucharest 1964

Proceedings volume published by the World Federation of Trade Unions (Prague, 1964) of the 2nd International Trade Union Conference on the Problems of Working Women, Bucharest, 11-16 May 1964: agenda reports, delegates' speeches, a Charter on the Economic and Social Rights of Working Women and a memorandum to the ILO.

GA-02494 1964-05-13 rel A licensed

CPR Delegates Oppose WFTU Conference Plan (FBIS, 13 May 1964)

FBIS-monitored Xinhua report (13 May 1964) on the Second International Trade Union Conference on the Problems of Women Workers, Bucharest (opened 11 May): the Chinese, Albanian and Indonesian delegations protested the WFTU Secretariat's proposed presidium. Sri Ambar, head of the Indonesian delegation, called for a non-

GA-02495 1964-05-15 rel A licensed

Women's TU Meet Debates 'No Struggle' Line: Secretary General's Report (FBIS, 15 May 1964)

Women's Trade Union Meeting Debates 'No Struggle' Line (FBIS, 15 May 1964)

FBIS-monitored Xinhua report (15 May 1964) on the Bucharest women workers' trade union conference: WFTU Secretary General Louis Saillant's report praising the Moscow test-ban treaty and peaceful coexistence is attacked as a 'capitulationist' line. Chi Yuan-te (China) and Sri Ambar, head of the Indonesian delegation, ar

GA-02336 1975-07-03 Daily World rel C licensed

WFTU condemns jailings of Indonesian workers, SOBSI ban

Daily World, 3 July 1975: WFTU condemns jailings of Indonesian workers and SOBSI ban

Daily World, 3 July 1975, p. 5: page of mixed US labour news; the Indonesia item (Prague) reports the WFTU condemning the imprisonment of thousands of political prisoners in Indonesian military compounds and demanding that the ban on SOBSI be lifted, calling both violations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights