The small world (news column, with item on Gerwis and the Rosenbergs)
Het Nieuwsblad voor Sumatra news-in-brief column 'De kleine wereld' (3 Jul 1953, p.4). Among items on a pharmacy strike, a journalist's film censored, a Guatemala explosion and Dusseldorf baby names, one notes that the Indonesian women's movement GERWIS urged the US government, via its Jakarta embassy, to guarantee the
In Jember the railwaymen strike again; Gerwani feeds the strikers
De Nieuwsgier item (7 Aug 1956): railway union SBKA strike in Jember halted two goods trains; the local Gerwani branch voluntarily supplied food to the strikers, and railway management's attempt to register absentees was withdrawn after worker reaction. An example of Gerwani solidarity with labour.
Railway strike in Jember
Java-Bode, 7 August 1956, p. 2: report on a railway workers' (SBKA) strike at Jember that stopped two goods trains. The Jember branch of Gerwani voluntarily supplied the strikers with food; management's attempt to register absentees was withdrawn after worker reaction, and there was no disorder.