WORLD FEDERATION OF SCIENTIFIC WORKERS (WFSW) A COMPILATION OF AVAILABLE BASIC REFERENCE DATA - - AFFILIATES AND PARALLEL ORGANIZATIONS, STRENGTH, OFFICIERS, ADDRESSES, PUBLICATIONS

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WORLD FEDERATION OF SCIENTIFIC WORKERS (WFSW)
A Compilation of Available Basic
Reference Data -- Affiliates and Parallel
Organizations, Strength, Officers, Addresses,
Publications.
Based on Data Available
as of 1 October 1956
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WORLD FEDERATION OF SCIENTIFIC WORKERS (WFSW
A. Headquarters Address:
WFSW used headquarters of the British Association of Scientific
Workers at 15 Half Moon Street, London, until September 1955
when a separate address was published:
27 Red Lion St,, London
(Prof. E. G. Edwards in charge)
B. Regional Offices:
(1) UNESCO House - 18 Ave Kleber, Paris (This office was established
in 1946; it is not believed to be in existence now since correspondence
is currently sent to the private laboratory of the "French Secretary",
Dr. R. Bonet-Maury, at the Institut de Radium, 11 Rue de Pierre
Curie, Paris)
(2) Trida Politickych Veznu 7, Prague II
(Prof. Ivan Malek in charge).
(3) 3 Wen Tsin Chieh, Peking
(Prof. T'U Chang-wang in charge).
C. Claimed Strength:
150, 000 in 18 countries.
D. Official (WFSW) Publications:
WFSW BULLETIN published in English, French,.Russian and Chinese.
SCIENCE AND MANKIND
INTER-EDITORIAL SERVICE (bears legend "Only for Use of WFSW
Editorial Centers ")
The Central Editor is E. G. Edwards.
The editorial office is listed as:
27 Red Lion Street
London W.C.I.
Scientific World (quarterly journal to begin in Autumn 1956)
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E. List of Officers (1955):
President:
Vice Presidents:
Treasurer:
Secretary General:
Central Editor:
(and Honorary Secretary)
Prague Editor:
(and Honorary Secretary)
Peking Editor:
(and Honorary Secretary)
Honorary Secretaries:
Assistant Secretary:
Corresponding member:
Professor Frederic Joliot-Curie (France)
Professor John Desmond Bernal
(Great Britain);
LI S.six -.kuang (Communist China)
also called J. S. Lee;
Academician A. I. Oparin (USSR);
Professor Linus Pauling (USA);
Professor Cecil F. Powell (Great Britain);
Dr. W. A. Wooster (Great Britain)
Dr. Pierre Biquard (France):
Dr. E. G. Edwards (Great Britain)
Academician Ivan Malek (Czechoslovakia)
Professor TI U Ch' ang Wang (Communist
China)
Dr. E. Burhop (Britain);
CI-IOU P''e*-yuan (China)
Miss Anita Rimel (Great Britain)
Dr. Josue de Castro (Brazil)
F. Regional Officers:
Regional Representative for Eastern Asia:
Professor HUO Lo-Keng
Regional Representative for Eastern Europe:
Dr. E. Valko
Regional Representative for Western Europe:
W. J. S. Pringle
Regional Representative for Scandinavia:
Dr. G. P. Norregard
Regional Representative for the USSR:
Mr. Tsutskov
Regional Representative for India and Western Asia:
Sir S. S. Sokhey
SM&M&WPOWT
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G. Alphabetical List, by Country, or Affiliated and Parallel Organizations
Affiliate s
Parallel Organizations
1. ALBANIA
Scientific Society of Albanian People's Republic
Affiliated 1956.
2. AUSTRALIA
Australian Association of Scientific Worker s-AA.ScW.
Sydney, Australia
Founded by Communists in 1948.
Control of most offices gained by non-Communists
elements in 1950.
Regional Branches:
(a) Victoria Branch:
According to Science and Mankind, the Victorial
Branch of the AAScW is affiliated with WFSW.
According to 'other sources, ASScW Executives
rejected affiliation in 1950. Co-operates in many
aspects with WFSW.
(b) New South Wales Branch (non-affiliate WFSW)
(c) Victoria Branch (affiliate)
Officers:
President: E. J. Hopkins
Vice-President: S. J. Prokhovnik
Vice-President: Egon Stein
Secretary: Alan McDonald Richardson
Parallel organizations are those which generally support the objectives
and activities of the WFSW, but which are not definitely known to be
formally affiliated with that organization.
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No affiliate,
in Englebert
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Parallel Organizations
ut WFSW has an active contact
roda, Communist, physicist.
Professor L. Vandenidriesche, "observer"
Berlin meeting (December 1955)
Union of Scie
Claimed. Stre
Founded one
in Bulgaria (
tific Workers of Bulgaria
gth: 1,236 members
onth after Communist regime
n October 1944)
Professor Kiril T. Bratanov
Candian Ass Founded in 1
David Heega
Claimed Stre
Officers:
President:
Vice-Presid
Vice-Presid
Treasurer:
a) Chines e
China Fe
Regional
Eight Bra
overseas
one in U.
returned
ciation of Scientific Workers.
44 by Drs. Raymond Boyer,
, and Norman Veall
gth: 400 members (1951)
Dr. Paul Larose
nt: Dr. R.. W. Hanley
nt: Mr. P. Pfalzner
Dr. Eric Robinson
ssociation of Scientific Workers aka
ffices:
ches in. China; "several" among
hi.nese, including one in Paris and
S. (some of whose 700 members
o China. U.. S. Branch reportedly
on 1950)
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Affiliate s
7. CHINA (Communist) (cont'd)
Claimed Strength: 50, 000 (in 1952)
Officers: (October 1953)
Honorary Secretary:
Parallel Organizations
T'U Ch'ang-wang
CHANG Han-ying
YANG Hsien-tung
CHOU P' ei-yuan
WU Ying-kai
TS'AO Jih-ch'ang
CHOU Shih-lu
Miss CHU-Yung
Chairman of the Peking
WFSW Conference
April 1956 LI Ssu-Kuang
Vice-Chairman CH'EN Kuang-pai
There are a great many organizations in China composed
of members interested in scientific subjects and scientific
research--in the fields of medicine, psychology, philosophy,
agriculture, forestry, chemistry, other natural sciences,
military and industrial sciences etc--a list of which is
available. It is assumed that they are numbered among the
50, 000 affiliates cliamed by the WFSW in China.
All China Association for the Dissemination
of Scientific and Technical Knowledge.
This organization claims over 600 branches
and to have given 44, 000 lectures on science
and technology during the first six months of
1956. It also claims to be "educating" 44
million workers.
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Affiliates Parallel Organizations
8. CZECHOSLOVAKIA
a. Czec oslovakia Association of
Scien ific Workers
Formed in 1948 as a branch of the
Revo utionary Trade Union Movement
Claimed Strength: 300 members
Professor J. Belehradek
Ivan Malek
T. Neneces
b. Com ission of Scientific Workers
of the Czechoslovak Union of Educational
Employees
Delegates to Berlin Meeting: Sept. 1955
Professor J. Fukatu
V. Thruzo
9.. DENMARK
Danis Association for the Protection of
Scientific Work
Established 1945-1946.
Officers:
General Secretary: Niels Alkil
Other ; Paul Dederichsen
Torben Lund
Niels Arley
Georg Norregard
Erik Bredahl
Georg Norregard
Mogens Degerbol
Dr. A. F. Bruhn
A. Torben Lund
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Affiliates Parallel Organizations
a. Association of Scientific Workers
(Association des Travailleurs
Scientifiques-ATS)
Established on 4 November 1944 at Sorbonne
Headquarters Address:
36 rue Geoffroy Street
Hilaire, Paris V
Claimed Strength: 1, 400 members (1953)
Publication: Information ATS-published by
Sedic (Societe d'Editions et d'Impressions du
Croissant, Communist printing company.)
Officers:
Honorary President: Frederick Joliot--Curie
President: Yves Le Grand
Vice President: Charles Sadron
Secretary General: Edmond Grillot
Administrative Secretary: Jean Guastella
Assistant Administrative
Secretary: Rene Durand
Treasurer: Joseph Mattler
Assistant Treasurer: Francoise Vigean
Archivist: Jacqueline Hadamard
b. National Union of Atomic Research Workers.
(Syndicat National des Travailleurs de la Recherche
Ato.mique - SNTRA)
Founded February 1940
Headquarters Address:
CGT Building,., 213 rue La Fayette Paris.
Officers:
Secretary Gneral:
Assistant Secretaries:
Secretary:
Treasurer:
Assistant Treasurer:
Archivist:
Representative on WFSW:
Marcel Stiguel
Andre Paprineau
Francis Abraham Netter
Charles Cassignol
Louis Rousseau
Raymond Bruzac
Jacques Lazare Weill
Dr. Pierre Biquard,
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Affiliates Parallel Organizations
c. National Union of University
Teacher and Research Workers.
(Syndics National de 1'Enseignement
Super.ie et de la Recherche Scientifique-
SNESRS)
Headquarters Address:
Eco a Normale Superieure,
Par. S,
Officers
Secretary General: Louis Camille Barrabe
Assistant Secretaries: Ernest Kahane
Eugene Marcel Prenant
Adminis rative Secretary: Robert Francis Santerey
Treasurer: Andre Pacand
Assistant Treasurer: E. Perroy
Archivis : Andre Langevin
Society of Rare Soils
(Societe de Terres Rares)
President: Dr. Joseph
Blumenfeld
Soloman Circle, Science
Department
(Cercle Saloman, Faculte
des Sciences) Sorbonne, Paris.
French University Union
(L'Union Francaise Universitaire)
National Union of Atomic Energy
Workers
(L'Union Nationale des Travailleurs
de l'Energie Atomique)
Henri Poincare Institute
(Institut Henri Poincare)
1 rue Pierre Curie, Paris.
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Affiliates Parellel Organizations
11. GERMANY (East)
Scientific Workers Union of Soviet Association for the
East Germany Furtherance of Scientific
(Ge.werkschaft Wissenschaft) Knowledge.
Affiliated 1954 Director: Otto Schroeder
Chairman: Professor G. Rienacker
Vice Chairman: W. Hartke
12. GREAT BRITAIN
British Association of Scientific
Workers - A ScW.
Affiliated 1946
Headquarters Address:
15 Half Moon St, London.
Strength: 11, 318 (1954)
Officers:
President: Dr. Cecil Powers
Secretaries: J. Dutton
Dr. E. G. Edwards
Miss F. Hanley
Assistant Secre-
tary: Miss A. Rimel
Regional Repre-
sentative: W. J. S. Pringle
a. Institute of Professional
Civil Servants of England
(paid "subscription" to
AScW-not known if affiliated.
Secretary: Stanley Mayne
b. Union of British Scientists
(affiliation unknown)
c. Science Advisory Committee
of the Society for Cultural
Relations with the USSR.
Officer: John Bernal
d. Science for Peace
Officer: John Bernal
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Parellel Organizations
Greece Science Reconstruction
Society.
Affiliated 1948 -- inactive at present
Streng : 350 members (1948)
Officers:
Profes or: Nikolaos Kitsikis
Mr. Batsis
Serafine Maximos
Hungar
and Tec
an Association of Scientific
hnical Societies
(Musza
'{oyes
i es Termeszettudomany
letek Szovetsege)
F ande
1948 - affiliated May 1953
Secreta
ry General: Endre Valko
Society for the
Popularization of the
Social and Cultural
15.
INDIA
Sciences.
Associ
of India
Founded
Strengt
tion of Scientific Workers
1947
: 1300 members (1951)
Officer
:
Preside
nt: Dr. Biresh Chandra Guha
Vice Pr
esident: Dr. D. V. Karmarkar
Secreta
ries: A. C. De
C. R. Mitra
R. C. Chib
Treasu
er: S. L. Methra
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15. INDIA (Cont'd)
Parallel Organizations
a. Science Commission for Scientific
Collaboration in Asia - aka
The Scientific Liaison Commission
for Asia. Set up by the ASW of
India in January 1955
Members:
Dr. J. J. Amar singham (Ceylon)
Dr. Chien Tie (China)
Hua Lo Keng (China)
Ting Hsi Lin (China)
Wang Hu Chen (China)
Dr. Tadashi Akimoto (Japan)
Dr. Hideo Kumabe (Japan)
Ichiro Hayasaka (Japan)
Saburo Taniguchi (Japan)
Goro Tominaga (Japan)
Toh Yu Ho (Korea)
Antoine Tabet (Lebanon)
Jagvaral Nim (Mongolia)
Mourad Kouatli (Syria)
Mrs. N. Bazanova (USSR)
Dr. Nguyen Van Houng (Vietnam)
Major General S. S. Sokhey (India)
Prof. M. N. Saha (India)
Prof. Satyen Bose (India)
16. JAPAN
Association of Democratic Workers
of Ja.pan
(Minshushugi Kagakusha Kyokai -Minka)
Formed in 1946 - affiliated WFSW 1955.
Headquarters Address:
4, 2-chome, Leiubo-cho
Cheyoda-kei, Tokyo
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16. JAPAN (Cont'd)
Parallel Organizations
Regional Offices: 114 branches.
Claimed Stre gth: 10, 000 members (1951)
current figures 2443
(1344 scholars - 1099 students)
Publication: Riron (Theory)
Kagaku-sha (Scientist)
Officers:
Chairman: Suokawa Hiroshi
Chairman of saka Branch: Fushimi Koji
Founders: Kazahaga Jasogi
Kawasaki Misahun
Watanabe Yoshimichi
Kono Shigehiso
Small but influential groups
designed to report favorably
on conditions in Communist-
dominated countries include:
a. The China Research Group
b. The Soviet Research Assoc.
c. The Marx-Lenin Research
Institute
d. The World Policy Research
Institute
e. The Soviet Data Correspondence
Company
f. World Economic Research
Institute
g. Economic Research Institute
of the Osaka Municipal Univ.
17. KOREA (North)
Korean Democratic Scientist Association
Affiliated Aprl
Officers:
Chairman:
Vice Chairme?
Secretary Gen
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Affiliates
Parallel Organizations
17.
KOREA (North) cont'd
18.
Medical and Pharmaceutical
Institute
Director: Choe Myong-Hak
MEXICO
No WFSW affiliate, but Manuel
Sandoval Vallarta is WFSW contact.
19.
MONGOLIA
Scientific Society of the People's Republic
of Mongolia.
Affiliated April 1956.
20. NETHERLANDS
Netherlands Association of Scientific
Workers
(Verband Vau Wetenschappelik Onder
Zoekers)
This group disaffiliated in April 1950, but
sends "observers" to WFSW meetings.. Most
leftist branch is in Utrecht with Dr. M.innaert
in control.
Strength: 600 members (1950)
Officers:
Chairman:
Professor K. C. Winkler
Vice Chairman:
Dr.
H.
J. Groenwold
Secretary:
P.
G.
De Haan
Treasurer:
Dr.
T.
Raven
21. NEW ZEALAND
New Zealand Association of Scientific Workers
Affiliated WFSW 1946 - has differed with WFSW'
in some policies.
22. NORWAY
No affiliate represented at WFSW meetings by
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Parallel Organizations
Pakist n Association of Scientific Workers
Founded 1950 - affiliated 1953
Regional branches: Karachi
Quelta
Dacca
Chittagong
Dr. Riaz Ahmad Khan.
Bashir Ahmad
Muhammad Hasan
Scientific Section of the Union
of Polish Teachers.
Affiliated 1952
Professor Leopold Infeld
Professor Jan Dembrowski
Scienti is Society of the Rumanian
People's Republic
Affiliated April 1956.
2 6. USSR
Union f Workers of Higher Education
and Scientific Institutions of the
USSR, aka Union of Cultural Workers
of the USSR.
Affiliated May 1955.
Repres ntatives: A. I. Oparin
Vladimir Berezin
I. M. Kulchov
Mme L. I. Kucharenko
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Plans for extension of the WFSW.
The 16th Executive Council Meeting in Peking April 1956
announced that efforts were being made to establish con-
tacts with scientific workers in countries where there is
no organization affiliated to the WFSW i.e., Argentina,
Belgium, Finland, The German Federal Republic, Greece,.
Italy, Israel, Malaya, Norway, Sweden and Yugoslavia.
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