2. To request foreign companies which have invested in South Africa to withdraw their investments and to refrain from any co-operation with the South African régime in the economic and military field.
IV. Action of Trade Unions the World Over
1. To put maximum pressure on their respective governments for the implementation of the above recommendations.
2. To put maximum pressure, with recourse to industrial action, on companies investing in South Africa which do not recognise African trade unions and act in contradiction with internationally recognised labour standards.
3. To organise meetings with shop stewards, workers' rallies within companies, the distribution of leaflets and posters, study circles and seminars and special features in trade union journals in order to mobilise the rank-and-file in solidarity action with the workers in South Africa.
4. To give financial and moral support to the African trade unions inside South Africa, including assistance to organisation campaigns and educational programmes and legal and relief assistance to imprisoned and restricted trade unionists and their families.
5. To organise campaigns to ensure that trade union members do not emigrate to South Africa and to withdraw trade union membership cards as a sanction against such emigrants; to introduce a ban on advertisements for jobs in South Africa and exert pressure for the closure of South African recruitment offices.
6. To withdraw all trade union funds from any company or investment scheme with interests in South Africa.
7. To insist on the establishment of tripartite monitoring machinery in cases where codes of conduct for companies have been adopted for companies investing in South Africa and to exert the strongest pressure for sanctions in this respect.
8. Trade union representatives in delegations to the United Nations and the specialised agencies to press for the fullest implementation of the Programme of Action against apartheid.
9. To take all measures aimed at further isolating the South African régime and to support general anti-apartheid activities.
10. To co-ordinate trade union action against apartheid in accordance with the resolution adopted by the Second World Trade Union Conference against Apartheid in 1977.
V. ILO Action
1. To undertake the necessary action to update the 1964 Declaration concerning the Policy of Apartheid of the Republic of South Africa, for consideration, to the extent possible, at the 67th Session of the International Labour Conference in 1981.
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2. To include in the annual Special Report on the Application of the Declaration concerning the Policy of Apartheid in the Republic of South Africa details of action taken by ILO constituents (Governments, Workers and Employers) which could form the basis of an annual monitoring exercise within the ILO on action taken against apartheid; tripartite machinery should be set up to give effect to this proposal.
3. To distribute widely the Special Reports, in particular in the appropriate languages to ensure wider readership, thereby indicating the support of world opinion to the peoples of southern Africa in their struggle for the total elimination of apartheid; in particular the Special Reports should:
describe measures such as government action for the prohibition of investment in South Africa;
monitor the various codes on employment matters with a bearing on apartheid to be observed by employers and their organisations within and outside South Africa and highlight their deficiencies;
contain in tabular form details of the ILO's action for the elimination of apartheid in labour matters, indicating the legislation which the Conference has asked to be repealed and also the new legislation adopted in South Africa and the extent of its compliance with international labour standards.
4. To increase the ILO's educational activities and technical assistance to the liberation movements, the Black workers and their independent trade unions in South Africa, in close
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