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...increased their invasion capability, making the situation "far more serious" than before. Next day State Department Spokesman William Dyess warned that Soviet preparedness had reached the point where "they are capable of moving at any time." Vice President George Bush underscored U.S. concern by telling Polish Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski, who was in Washington seeking economic aid (see box), that "we follow a policy of nonintervention in Poland's internal affairs, and we are anxious that others do the same...
Walesa made one of his periodic trips to Warsaw to meet with Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski to discuss not only the issue of the five-day week but also censorship disputes, including the right of Solidarity to publish its own newspaper and of theaters to screen a documentary about the summer strikes. The fact that Jagielski, the regime's top-ranking Deputy Premier, who had personally negotiated the Gdansk accord, had been suddenly called in to replace a lower-ranking official for the talks showed the serious ness of the new labor-government face-off. Walesa and Jagielski were...
...national television appearance, Jagielski offered a compromise: the government would grant workers every other Saturday off, or give them all Saturdays free but add half an hour to each working day, in effect, a five-day week of 8½-hour work days. Otherwise, Jagielski pleaded, the loss of Saturday work would cause another 9% drop in production, on top of 1980's economic woes. Thus, he said, he was appealing to "the patriotism of the people" to help out in this difficult time. Despite his entreaties, a large percentage of Poland's industrial work force did stay...
Walesa proved equally adept at hard-nosed political bargaining. After eight days of tense face-to-face negotiations with Polish Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski, he won a historic agreement that made Poland the only Communist country to have independent trade unions. It was a daring deviation from Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy that potentially challenged the Communist Party's monopoly of power and set a dangerous precedent for the rest of the East bloc...
...clout of Solidarity. From a ragtag bunch of shipyard workers and dissidents, it has grown into a labor leviathan, with an estimated 10 million members (out of 17.3 million employed) in 54 chapters around the country. When a strike loomed in Warsaw, no less than Deputy Prime Minister Jagielski offered to dispatch a government helicopter to Gdansk to pick up Lech Walesa. Solidarity has even acquired a modicum of official respectability. To raise funds, it has sponsored a benefit performance at the National Opera House and auctions at the National Gallery...