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Peringatan Hari 1 Mei 1951 di Surakarta (Bentara)

Commemoration of 1 May 1951 in Surakarta (Bentara)

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Full-page notice in the Surakarta magazine Bentara listing the organising committee of the 1 May 1951 Labour Day commemoration, a left united front dominated by SOBSI unions and including Gerwis.

Pengumuman satu halaman di majalah Bentara (Surakarta) yang mendaftar panitia peringatan Hari Buruh 1 Mei 1951, front persatuan kiri yang didominasi serikat SOBSI dan menyertakan Gerwis.

Organisations

Indonesian Conscious Women's Movement (Gerwis)All-Indonesia Central Labour OrganisationTextile Workers' UnionRailway Workers' UnionPost and Telecommunications Workers' Union

Places

Surakarta

Topics

Gerwislabour and workerspropaganda and media

Tags

may dayorganisational structure

Details

Date
1951-05-01
Creator
Bentara
Publication
Bentara
Document type
periodical article (Magazine page (Surakarta left-wing periodical), single page image)
Language
Indonesian (old spelling)
Perspective
Indonesian mainstream/other press
Source role
primary
Country
Indonesia
Period
1950–1954
Source archive
Monumen Pers Nasional SIDAK · source link
Access
Monumen Pers Nasional SIDAK digital newspaper collection (free; CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 per site), record 155116 in file name; downloaded 2026-10-15/16 via the Claude desktop browser. Freely viewable at source but reuse terms apply or are unrecorded: link to the source; host the file only after checking rights.
Citation (APA)
Bentara. (1951, May 1). [Page 37: Selamat Hari 1 Mei 1951 – Panitya Peringatan 1 Mei 1951 Surakarta]. Bentara (Surakarta), 37.
File
01 Primary Sources/1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals/Bentara (1951) - page mentioning Gerwis (MPN SIDAK)/Bentara (1951-05-01) - p. 37, Gerwis hit [MPN SIDAK 155116].jpg
OCR / text
Fair (0.782) · proof-reading: whole text (Claude, Oct 2026) · translation: not needed
Collection
01 Primary Sources › 1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals › Bentara (1951) - page mentioning Gerwis (MPN SIDAK)
Summary basis
condensed from full annotation

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