CONGRESS OF WORKING WOMEN.
Miss Mary Anderson, director of the Women’s Bureau in the United States Department of Labour, writes regretfully that there were no Australian delegates to the International Congress of Working Women, held in Washington last November, states the Sydney Sunday Times. Women representing thirteen countries were present with thirty-one delegates. Besides these there were visitors who were also advisers to the official Labour conference—two women each from Japan, Switzerland, Spain, and Holland, and one from Serbia. The countries represented by regular delegates were France, Poland, Sweden, Belgium, British Empire, Czechoslovakia, Italy, Argentine, Canada, Norway, Denmark, India, and United States.
'Resolutions adopted were the eighthour day and 44-hour week; prohibition of night work for women and men as far as possible; unemployment; child labour; maternity insurance; immigration; resolution asking for the lifting of the Russian blockade, and a resolution for a permanent bureau. The next conference will be held somewhere in Europe this year, and it is hoped that Australian women will be represented: at the forthcoming international conference.
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Waipa Post, Volume XIII, Issue 895, 24 January 1920, Page 3
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