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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...
...crucial test of wills could take place this week as Solidarity delegates gather in Gdansk on Sept. 26 for the second half of their national convention. Walesa and his fellow moderates are hoping to rein in union radicals. The argument for moderation was indirectly strengthened, in fact, by Pope John Paul II's encyclical on trade unions that many observers interpreted in part as a veiled warning to Solidarity not to become too politicized (see RELIGION...
...vegetables at prices slightly higher than the state stores. A free-market egg costs about 40?, for example, compared with 30? for one in a state store. The more wealthy city dweller may drive out into the country and buy meat directly and illegally from a farmer. One Gdansk bureaucrat admits that he and a neighbor buy whole pigs and then salt the meat down in barrels. Such stratagems have become so common that the government last month prohibited the sale of meat outside state stores. Reason: farmers were refusing to sell their pigs to the government at the official...
...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...