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

=== [PDF page 1] === Page 10 DAILY WORLD Wednesday, July 2,1975 yHtentiatcMial'JtecM Salyut checks atmosphere pollution The Salyut-4 space orbiting station of the USSR is checking on the degree of pollution of the Earth’s atmos phere, Tuesday’s edition of the Soviet Communist Party daily newspaper Pravda revealed. It said: “The investiga tions now being carried out by Pyotr Klimuk and Vitali Sevastyanov on board the Salyut-4 will help us to make an estimate of the degree of atmospheric pollution caused as a result of man’s activities.’’ Klimuk and Sevastyanov blasted off May 24 from the USSR’s space flight center at Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Preparations for the July 15 joint U S.-Soviet “Soyuz-Apollo” spaceflight are now being completed at Baikonur and at the Houston Manned Spaceflight Center in the U S. The prominent article in Pravda on Tuesday on the Salyut-4’s work said that a new method of spectral sounding of the upper atmos phere is being used for the first time by the Salyut-4 crew to “help study the distribution in the atmosphere of water vapor, ozone, and ni trogen oxides, which are of special interest to scientists.” As many recent scientific writings have stated, the Earth s climate is changing. But no one is sure just what is causing the change. It could be a natural process of change. But also it could be the result of pollu tion of the atmosphere through gases emitted by increased numbers of vehicles, more industrial plants, etc. Salyut-4’s activities are designed to help answer some of these important questions. Pravda said: “It is on these substances (ozone, water vapor, nitrogen oxides, etc.) that the condition of the atmosphere and the pro cesses going on within it largely depend. This refers specifically to such processes as the absorption of infra-red solar radiation ^nd the Earth’s heat flow which is emitted out into space. It also refers to the weakening of ultra-violet solar radiation (by the ozone layer). Direct, unweakened ultra-violet radiation would have a disastrous effect on everything living on Earth. ” THE NEED FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION was empha sized by Yuri Izrael, a leading member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, in a Tuesday interview with the Soviet news agency, TASS. Izrael is head of the Soviet Hydrometeorological Service, the USSR’s “Environmental Protection Agency.” “It is necessary to take effective and preventive measures for the human environment,” Izrael said. “The view that an ‘ecological crisis’ has set in on Earth and that irreversible processes have taken place in the biosphere is not shared in the Soviet Union. At the same time, we are not inclined to underestimate the danger of man’s increasing influence on nature. The problem is a sensible, rational transformation of nature and use of its resources in the interests of present and future genera tions.” The Soviet scientist said this “calls for a serious effort by all countries” and will only be possible under conditions of peaceful co existence, when funds and resources formerly used for war can be put to really constructive use. “The Soviet Union,” he stressed, “is the first country in the world to have fixed by law the limit of concentra tion of harmful substances in the atmosphere.” SOVIET SALT TALKS DELEGATION CHIEF VLADIMIR SEMYO NOV arrived in Geneva, Switzerland, on Tuesday to continue the SovietU.S. talks on strategic arms limitation. He said the delegation would continue its joint work with the U.S. side to draft a new agreement. Semyonov said the draft will be based on the provisions worked out at the Vladivostok meeting between President Ford and Leonid Brezh nev. “Just as before, our approach to fulfilling the task is a constructive and businesslike one,” he said. “We assume that the U.S. delegation will have the same approach.” The terms “strategic arms” refers to intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), either land or sea-launched, and to manned bombers. PUERTO RICAN INDEPENDENCE WAS SUPPORTED by the Second Interamerican Conference on Legal Aspects of Economic Inde pendence which took place June 16-21 in Panama, conference documents released Tuesday showed. The Conference approved by unanimous vote four resolutions on Puerto Rican independence. The resolutions ex pressed support of and solidarity with the struggle of the people of Puer to Rico for their independence and asked that Kurt Waldheim, the Uni ted nations’ Secretary General, and Salim A. Salim, Chairman of the UN Committee on Decolonization, set up a commission mandated to visit Puerto Rico to study actual conditions there for people living under the yoke of U.S. imperialism. The Conference also demanded that the U.S. imperialists release Puerto Rican political prisoners. Among the political prisoners whose release was demanded were Irvin Flores, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Lolita Lebron, Oscar Collazo and Andres Figueroa Cordero. A Conference declaration named 1975-76 as “The Year of Habeas Corpus” in order to stress the importance of this legal recourse. PREMIER ERIC WILLIAMS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO was the honored guest at a Tuesday luncheon in Moscow hosted by Premier Alexei Kosygin of the USSR. Kosygin said in a luncheon speech; “The Soviet people understand well the strivings of the people of Trinidad and Tobago for national renaissance, strengthening independence, creat ing the bases of a national economy. The Soviet Union’s activities in the international arena have always been directed at giving support to the liberation forces, to all oppressed peoples.” Kosygin said the Soviet-Trinidad talks had shown that both states agree on peaceful coexistence, the need for world peace and coopera tion, and for the quickest possible implementation of the United Na tions’ decisions on liquidation of colonialism, racism and apartheid. The Soviet Union, he said, is ready to aid Trinidad in industrial devel opment, training of cadres, etc. Wanda Weaver, 54, leader of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Harrisburg local, is dragged off by police for picketing at Department of Transportation building in Harrisburg, Pa. State em ployees struck July 1st after negotiations broke down. Alex/co conferees tie women’s freedom to economic problems Special to the Daily World MEXICO CITY. July I - The majority of speakers from dele gations of UN member nations represented at the UN Interna tional Women’s Year Conference here has declared that true emancipation of women is impos sible without solving fundamental political and socio-economic pro blems. Delegates from African, Asian and Latin American countries are especially active in confer ence committees and working groups preparing draft resolutions for a 10-year program of action for member nations to work for in the fight for women’s rights. “One cannot seriously speak of emancipation of women in Afri ca” said Salimatu Diallo repre senting the Organization of Afri can Unity “as long as millions of African people remain oppres sed and enslaved.” Diallo was one of many African speakers who said that the women of Africa can become really free and equal only as the evils of ILO will propose better world working conditions GENEVA, July 1—Work is to start in the International Labor Office on a world action pro gram to improve the working en vironment, director-general Francis Blanchard announced. He was replying to the general debate of the International Labor Conference in which 231 govern ment, employer and worker re presentatives discussed the world labor scene. Delegates from 119 countries took p>art in the conference which ended June 25. “I have been struck by the similarity of views among coun tries whose levels of economic development are different,” Blanchard said. Member countries, he noted want the International Labor Or ganization (ILO) to draw up an action plan and they want nation al programs for improvement of working conditions to be prepar ed and put into effect by methods which make use of tripartite pro cedures, in which Governments act in consultation and co-opjeration with employers and workers. He told delegates he would put detailed proposals for the action program before the ILO govern ing body. The debate, he said, had highlighted four typ>es of action, as follows: —Improvement of working con ditions in the rural sector of de veloping countries, particularly in agriculture. —A substantial reduction in oc cupational accidents, in sectors where they are most frequentagriculture, construction, engi neering and mining. —Priority for certain measures to increase job satisfaction giv ing workers a wider range of options throughout their active lives in such matters as recur rent education, and providing better vocational guidance. —Preparing new international standards on the working envi ronment, possibly including the question of worker participation within the enterprise in decisions which concern safety and health, economics and the humanization of work generally. Blanchard pointed out that the long-term trend to fewer work ing accidents and illnesses had recently come to an end, with deaths still numbering some 100,000 a year in industry alone. colonialism, racial discrimination and apartheid are wiped out on the continent. Women under capitalism The plight of women in cap>italist society was described by several delegates here, espe cially those representing Italy, Fiji, Norway and Indonesia. They told of the discrimination wo men workers suffer in their countries through much lower pay rates for women compared with men, of unemployment which is especially high among women, and the lack or weak ness of labor laws to protect wo men workers, especially preg nant women and mothers. U.S. women delegates and visitors are recognized as the undisputed leaders of the femin ist forces, both at the UN official conference and the unofficial Tribune of non-governmental or ganizations also meeting here. There is a reported growing re sentment among women from the poor and developing countries at the statements and actions of the feminists. U.S. women cannot understand the problems of these other women, they declare, who are the vast majority of the wo men of the world and whose main problem is survival. U.S. feminist Betty Friedan has been reported as calling the UN official gathering “a callous manipulation of women by their government.” She has also call ed her own lunchtime sessions and headed up a group preparing its own women’s rights p>ap>er. END U.S. BLOCKADE OF CUBA