No. 17/72
Abdulrahim Abby Farah; United Nations Centre Against Apartheid
New York, New York, United States
September 1972
10 pages
Text of an address delivered by the Chairman of the Special Committee on Apartheid at the 10th World Congress of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions in London on 10-14 July 1972. First let me express, on behalf of the Special Committee on Apartheid, our sense of satisfaction that the International Conference of Free Trade Unions has agreed to support the International Trade Union Conference to be held next year, to work out a common program of action against apartheid. It was the International Conference of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) which called for a two-month boycott against South Africa in May 1960 – the kind of action, incidentally, which our Committee would like...
Text of an address delivered by the Chairman of the Special Committee on Apartheid at the 10th World Congress of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions in London on 10-14 July 1972. First let me express, on behalf of the Special Committee on Apartheid, our sense of satisfaction that the International Conference of Free Trade Unions has agreed to support the International Trade Union Conference to be held next year, to work out a common program of action against apartheid. It was the International Conference of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) which called for a two-month boycott against South Africa in May 1960 – the kind of action, incidentally, which our Committee would like to see renewed on a permanent basis. Since that time various trade unions have taken specific actions to deal with particular situations. Recently, for example, the Longshoremen’s Association in the United States refused to offload cargos of chrome ore which were illegally imported from Southern Rhodesia. This is the kind of action which we welcome, and are aware of the difficulties involved. In this case, the chrome was offloaded by non-union labor.
United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid
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