WIDF Bulletin (1947): Two New Requests for Affiliation to the WIDF

=== [PDF page 1] === A French woman-lawyer, Italian, Swedish and Swiss personalities have a given their agreem nt. French lawyer, Mr has accepted the Zoroa Sanch-z. situation in Spain daily increases thq need for the intensified struggle for the destruction of the Franco regime, as Franco daily perpetrates new crimes two anti-Farscisi fighters José Isasa Olaizola, of Cuban nationality and José Antonia Yerandi brutally tortured and sentenced to death by the Franco court after a parody of trial, have just been executde Morodefense of gustin The fighter, lied as a result nh he underwent at tn the Madrid Police enmes must not remain unred. The men and women who, ghout the world, are attached to atic idctals can not tole tence of such a nest of mad threat to the freedom and ‘ovrity of their own country can not tolerate that a p-ople who, for the last ten years, despite the terror, never ceased its heroic struggle fort fr-edom, should continue to be subj-cted to this bloody re pression, that its best sons be imprisoned and murdered. Through a strong campaign and protests. through the mobilisation of public opinion, the democratic organisations must obtain from all governm-nts the severance of diplomatic and economic relations with Franco Another anti-fascist Eduar- ) ¢ Z ima IV. _. TWO NEW REQUESTS FOR AFFILIATION TO THE _W.LD.F. 1. Netherlands At its Constituent Congress of November 1945 the Women's movement of the Netherlands adopted a resolution asking its affiliation to the W.I. of this believe, writes organisation, that the W.I. D.F. offers all the possibilities of solid cooperation betwe-n the women of the whole world in order to carry on the struggle against Fascism and for an enduring peace, for the happy futur> of the young generations and for the defense of the political, economic, legal and social rights of women.” the Secretary 2. Indonesia The Pan-Indonesian Women's Congress during the conference which tool place in Java in June 1946 decided to ask for its affiliation to the W.I.D.F. Th> aim of the Congress is the achievement of an enduring peace and to this end the Indanesian women wish to unite their efforts with those of the d-mocratic women’s organis tions of the other parts of the world. Vv. — NEWS FROM THE WHOLE WORLD Africa A thousand delegates representing 400,000 members came from all quarters of French Africa to hold, at Bamako, in S ptember 1946, a constituent Congress of the "African As- ‘uf. Br! sembly,” which has ag its programme the unity and the defense of the living conditions and interests of African negro’s within the French Union This group is fundamentally democra tic and is opposed to colonial exploitation Chili For the first time in this country a woman has been nominated to a diplomatic post Senora Carmen Vial de Senor-t has been apointed Minister Plenipotentiary to the Netherlands. Holland Reactionary elements would like to have women r°fused the rights to work the dent of the League holic kers is asking for zi forbidding married working in industry. India Congress hild_ at Akola in December 1946, the All-India Women's Conference adopted a resolution de manding that the Charter of the Righ!» of Indian Women (equality of economic and civic rights) should be tegral part of the new Constitution of free India, At a Malaya The Central Committee of the Pan- Malayan Federation of Labour ives wide publici'y to the raports presented to the Executive Committ-e of the W.LD.F. and to the vesolutions adopted. It has them translated into several Janguages, in order to make them known to the women of the various nationalities in Malaya. United States of Americ The Eleventh Congress of the tional Council of Negro Wom-n has held in Washington during the month of November. The slogan of the Congress was "American Women speak to their Government.” They claim a bond with the Govrnement services in order that they may known to whom they should apply to obtain asristance in all the great problems which they have to face, and they also demand legislation to protect and develop their riehts. A report was presented on "The Role of Coloured Women in the World of Today.” The International Guild of Women Cooperators At its international conference held at Zurich in September 1946 the Guild adopted various resolutions: one in particular, callod on the United Nations to prohibit the atomic bomb and called for the destruction of all those a'ready in existence, while another condemned the Franco regim> and apnealed to all membens of Guilds of Women Coop-rators to hasten its downfall bv aiding the economic and financial boveott of Franco Spain. At the me‘tine of its Executive Committee. the In‘ernational Guild expressed its warmest apvreciation 91f the aims and efforts of the Women’s Int*rnational Democratic Federation and its desire to have with it close collaboration and friendly relations very latitude is given to National Guilds to associate themselves with the W.I.D.F. in whatever way they may consider destrable. Bp NR. 12, AGG VI. — DOCUMENTS AND PUBLICATIONS "Femmes December first article of the Francaises’ 14th, 1946. punplishes th s:ries of the nev organisation in France of speeded vo cational training. The Ministry of La bour will open 750 centres which wi turn out 300,000 q two years. jualified work’rs |r Thanks to new metho of teaching and guidance the cour will only last The Spanish W « months. (boys and girls) will be paid The pup Spals omen'’s Union pul lishes in Spanish in Paris an illustral The ing Bulletin second Madrid 1946” Mrs. Green w in London "In Spain to-day” visit with the contains a ticle by Mari:-Cla tier “Les us © inte against Franco,” "Denne" month cist Italian an Nos! #1); protest; against ing he tion to number to an appeal of the W.LD.F. an artic!» on Mm report Macedo gress and two wo Paris Conference on the problem of limitation No. 5 of Woman” dedicat:d the great socialist the Alexandra Kolontai been done by the women. Th»? revi illustrated articles tinguished "Mujeres number Madrid to the 2 themselves in Antifascistas und: the contains an hich was pub follow the Spanish deleg Prisons. A thir mong others an ar ude Vaillant-Coulu snsify the strug Tries of ant women, Ja! No. 2 conta Franco in an ly review d Slav e. Curie, No. nian women’s Cor men’s letters to th and to Mrs. Bidaul Trieste and th: de} of frontiers.; review (september-octobe: "The 1946) 29th anniversary october revolu’t reviews what hs Soviet pow fo ew contains sever on women who it the field 6 science, of technology and of the arlé dren Indochina, Jinka’”’ tember, 1946, publ nian language in cles dedicated_to of the the jsituation of wom-n in the colonial countries pecially in India, Egypt, Indonesia #; (Th> Soviet Woman) and chi and "Radiansh of Se in the Ukr includes ar! 8th session review ished Kiev the the Supreme Sovi-t of the Soviet § cialist Republic of training of youth cational various alth, numbers _ of (Fire), Work woman) and Peasant Woman) articles on the re of the Ex:cutive tober, hools of Kharkov subjects such as: ed woman's physical cu the Ukraine to th} monitors in the wi and of educatlor the revier} *"Rabotnitsa” (TH} publish a series sults of the sessié 3ureau of last 0 Yugos'aviy "Zema Danas” No. 47, October 1%! reviews «the education considered of Women's ema The No. 2 of th tin of the Wo Front of Yugoslav women's and you the building of th? campaign for womet! to be the ba’ neipa‘ion. e information bull men’s Anti-Fast: via has news of th th front. 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