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...other side of the bargaining table sat First Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski, 56, whose graying hair and well-cut suit gave him the air of a distinguished Western banker. A tough and experienced negotiator, Jagielski was flanked by a task force that had flown with him from Warsaw three days earlier. Jagielski entered the shipyard through a side gate in order to avoid the antagonistic crowd at the main entrance. Workers stared at Jagielski's team in icy silence, then broke into hearty applause when their own negotiators passed...
...strikers promptly used their newly restored communications to coordinate their actions with other strike centers and even dispatched delegations to proselytize in the interior of the country. Soon new strikes were reported in such cities as Wroclaw, Lodz and Rzeszow, raising the ante and putting added pressure on the Jagielski team...
...Tuesday session. Said he: "We don't want to change the socialist ownership of the means of production, but we do want to be the real masters of the factories. We were promised that many times before. We have now decided to demand it by strikes." Jagielski responded with a different concession: a new trade-union law recognizing the right to strike-"as one form of realizing workers' demands when all other possibilities fail." With that, Polish workers had won a legal right unprecedented in any Communist country...
...turning point was reached on Thursday, when Walesa suddenly made his dramatic appeal for a temporary halt to new strikes so that the negotiations could continue without an atmosphere of deepening crisis. After descending from atop the shipyard gate and conferring with the Jagielski team, he gave the government negotiators a signed statement declaring, "We are not for the widening of the strikes, which might push the country to the verge of collapse." The government, however, never published that message, presumably because it would have further enhanced Walesa's image and influence...
...government team made little headway; in a tacit admission of failure, Gierek abruptly replaced Tadeusz Pyka as chief negotiator with Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski, a seasoned and effective bargainer. It was Jagielski who ultimately abandoned the divide-and-conquer approach, and met personally with a Strike Committee delegation?to the cheers of the picketing workers...