Word: gdansk
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...Deputy premier Mieczyslww Jaglielski informs strikers at the Lenin shipyards in Gdansk he will negotiate their 21 demands, which include freedom of speech, independent trade unions and access to the media by the Roman Catholic church...
...Jaglielski and Solidarity leader Lech Walesa sign an agreement ending the strikes in Gdansk and recognizing workers' rights to form trade unions independent of the Communist party...
...Solidarity's national commission meets in Gdansk and adopts resolutions threatening a general strike if the government enacts an emergency powers bill. Unionists demand free elections and other reforms...
...Polish Independence Day seem to reflect a desire by the beleaguered government of Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski to seek more popular backing by displaying an independence, if only symbolic, from the Soviet Union. The government did not even object last week when the Solidarity trade union named a shipyard in Gdansk after Pilsudski. The irony was palpable: Solidarity had been founded in another shipyard not far away, one that was named for Vladimir Lenin, the father of the Soviet state and a bitter enemy of Jozef Pilsudski...
...over, they solemnly rise to sing the national anthem. The devotion of Solidarity to its nation is obvious (though in a country with its own pope, much nationalism is subsumed in religious fervor), Clearly, though, the hopes of union members for reform go well beyond the boundaries of Gdansk, and, more important, well beyond the boundaries of the working class. Again and again Walesa that there shall be no agreement unless dissident intellectuals are released; if harassment continues, "We will strike again tomorrow," he declares...