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The Conference of Women
Workers adopted a Charter on
the Economic and Social Rights
of Working Women. It’s main
demands, in abridged form, are:

1. The right to work to be
guaranteed by the constitution
and industrial legislation of
each country.

2. Ratification and enforce-
ment of the International Labor
Office Convention No.100 pro-
viding for equal pay.

3. Equal technical training
and unrestricted entry of wom-
en into the trade of their choice.

4. Reduction of the working
hours with same take-home pay
to give women the possibility
to accomplish their duties as
workers and as mothers.

5. Women to have the right
to special protection including

Rights charter adopted

free medical care during preg-
nancy, confinement and after
childbirth; free medical assist-
ance for their children; matern-
ity leave and pay of ‘sufficient
duration to assure protection
of their health; special bonus
for the child’s needs and gener-
al child care.

6. Motherhood to be con-
sidered a social function which
is beneficial to society and re-
quires rights for working wom-
en, which must be recognized
by the state and employers; all
measures to be taken to pro-
tect their health; heavy work
and night work to be prohibit-
ed for expectant mothers.

7. In order to achieve the
above demands, trade unions
should encourage the participa-
tion of women in trade union
work and leadership.

Representatives of Cuba, the
German Democratic Republic
and India took the floor to pro-
test against the behavior of the
Chinese delegation. Others also
rebuffed the Peking group.

The conference expressed it-
self in. favor of setting up @
permanent international consul-
tative committee on economic
and social questions of women
workers. This committee is to
function under the WFIU sec-
retariat, and representatives of
other international trade union
centres will also be included.

The conference adopted a
charter of economic and social
rights of working women, which
includes general demands of
women of all trades and profes-
sions with due account for spe-
cific conditions in each country.
The conference also adopted
another document, a memoran-
dum, containing a number of

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of medical expenses as well as
great inequality in wages and
other opportunities.”

_ All delegates were guests of
the Rumanian Trade Unions
and after the conference closed
had a week’s holiday during
which they became better ac-
quainted with the beautiful city

of Bucharest, and also spent a

couple of days. at a beautiful

‘summer resort on the Black

Sea.

Mrs. Guberman was_ subse-
quently a guest of the Czecho-
slovakian Trade Unions and
had an opportunity to visit
Prague and make a short tour
of other industrial centres in
Czechoslovakia.

recommendations from the par-
ley to the International Labor
Organization.

(One of the items on the agen-
da of the ILO meeting, which
opened in Geneva June 17, is
Problems of Working Women
in a Changing World.)

Both documents, the Charter
and the memorandum, were
adopted by the overwhelming
majority of the delegates. The
Chinese and Albanian represen-
tatives did not take part in the
voting, and the Korean and In-
donesian delegates voted against.
The Japanese delegation ab-
stained. :

Soviet Union

t World's Fair

The Soviet Union is expected
to assign at least $20,000,006
for its participation in the 1967
World’s Fair in Montreal. This
amount would pay for its pavil-
jon and its contribution to the
joint project “May and the
Arctic.”

Officials of the Fair have
made several trips to Moscow
in the recent period to discuss
details of Soviet participation.

While no official figures have

been released, it is known that
two of the largest plots on the
grounds: have been assigned to
the Soviet Union, one measur-
ing 210,000 sq. ft. the other
250,000 sq. ft. World Fair rules
specify that a pavilion must
cover at least 70 percent of the
assigned plot.

At the World Fair in Brussels
in 1956 the Soviet Union spent
about $10 million for its pavil-
ion. At the 1967 Fair West Ger-
many is expected to spend as
much. : :

- following

By VICTOR PERLO
(U.S. economist)

CONOMIC GROWTH has
never been so universal as
right now, in the spring of
1964. A slowing down in capital-
ist countries in late 1962 and
early 1963 proved temporary.
Speedy advance is the rule al-
most everywhere. The American

recovery of 1962-63 has surged

into a full-scale boom. Under-

developed countries are  bene-.

fitting from an upturn in raw
material prices,
price scissors a little.

Scanty reports indicate that
China’s economy is again on
the upgrade. Socialist Czecho-
slovakia’s production is rising
its 1963 - setback.
Throughout Eastern Europe
the year-to-year comparisons
look especially good in contrast
to the output-crippling winter
of 1963. The Soviet economy
forges ever onward, while long-
term measures aim for a fresh
breakthrough in agriculture.

Industrial production in the~

capital countries increased 34
percent between 1937 and 1963,
with a gain of 5 percent in
1963 over 1962 accelerating to
nearly 7 percent in the fourth
quarter of 1963. Production in
the European socialist countries
increased 81 percent between
1957 and 1963, and 714 percent
in 1963 over 1962.

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Of course, this world boom
has not brought a millenium. It
is marred by capitalist exploita-
tion, imperialism, colonialism. It
is no boom for 40 million im-
poverished Americans, 10 mil-
lion enslaved South Africans,

hundreds of millions of barely.

existing people in underdevelop-
ed countries. In socialist count-
ries its benefits are reduced by
the effects of the split of China
from the USSR and from most
European countries, and by the
lag in agricultural growth.

But while it lasts it is real.
More people are deriving gains
than during any previous boom.
Living standards are rising for
the majority in the sociailist
countries, and for tens of mil-
lions of workers winning con-

uf

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relieving the

World boom

cessions in capitalist countries
(least of all in the United
States).

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Striking features of this
boom, some of them quite new,
include:

@ It is relatively even. Among
advanced capitalist countries
growth is comparatively even
for the first time in this genera-
tion. 5

@ There has been no major
world economic crisis for a long
time: A contributing factoér has
been capitalist government eco-
nomic regulation seeking to
avert typical crises of overpro-
duction. However, local crises —
of other kinds do break out, and
a variety of contradictions pile
up to threaten ‘later troubles.

@ International economic con-
_ nections are multiplying. World

trade rises faster than produc-
tion, capital and labor move
across boundaries as never be-
fore. Larger and more complex
connections are established
among capitalist countries and
socialist countries separately,
and between the two groups.

® Industrialization is begin-
ning is some underdeveloped
countries. Their production rise
is faster than in the developed
countries, and includes pioneer
basic industry establishments.

© Socialist gains over capital-
ism are spreading geographical-
ly. During the 1960’s, in a num-
ber of countries of Asia, Africa,
and Latin America socialism has
now gone beyond a general slo-
gan or promise to a concrete
goal implemented by practical
economic and social measures.

@ It is essentially a peaceful
boom. With our huge military
budget, the dirty war in Viet-
nam, the cowardly harassment
of Cuba, the screaming by
Rockerfeller and Goldwater,
this may seem strange to Amer-
icans. But on a world scale, and
in the United States also, for
the first time in a quarter of a
century economic trends are
determined mainly and decisive-
ly by peaceful factors, and not
by wars, their preparation or
after-effects.

ISO" THE LIFE-BLOop oF TRADE, FELLOWS,

LETS SEE SoME COMPETITION, LET'S SEE SOME BLoop! ”

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