Word: gdansk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tough campaign-at least on paper. After two emergency meetings last week, the Council of Ministers published a statement accusing Solidarity of seeking to seize political power in Poland. To prove that charge, Polish authorities cited the resolutions adopted a week earlier at Solidarity's national convention in Gdansk. The union had called for self-management of industrial enterprises by the workers, free democratic elections and the emergence of independent labor movements throughout the Soviet bloc. The last resolution was presumably the main source of the "anti-Sovietism" complained of by Moscow. The Council of Ministers' statement ended...
...difficult road of struggle for free and independent unions. We trust that our representatives can meet soon to share experiences." That motion's near unanimous passage sent a roar of applause echoing through the cavernous, flag-draped Olivia Sports Hall that housed the six-day convention in Gdansk...
...York in the fall, when they're lining up for sausages back in Gdansk. But to Zygmunt Przetakiewicz, 35, a representative of Solidarity, Poland's independent union federation, his Manhattan stayover is strictly business. Przetakiewicz has since been busying himself with preparations for the opening of Solidarity's first overseas press information office on Park Avenue South and adjusting to New York City...
...directors chosen by workers' councils. In July, employees of LOT, the state airline, struck for four hours over the right to choose a new director. They did not succeed. But a few weeks later, worker representatives from 1,000 enterprises met in the port city of Gdansk to discuss self-management. Then they went home and, in many cases, proceeded with plans to put it into practice. The result is confusion in the economy and consternation in the government...
...their national congress last weekend in Gdansk, where the movement was born, Solidarity leaders discussed current problems and made plans for another meeting on the issue later this month. But they were also preoccupied with the momentous changes that their country has undergone since the signing of the Gdansk agreement by the government and the unionists a year ago. The party has been challenged and to a considerable extent reformed; the Catholic Church, though now deprived of its venerable primate Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, who died last May, has become an arbiter between party and union; and Solidarity has grown into...