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Three cheers for Lech Walesa and the leaders of Solidarity in Poland [Dec. 29]. With the Soviets threatening their homeland more and more each day, they have stood calmly defiant in support of their ideals and their legitimate demands for a free union system. Their message to Moscow is not only making the Soviets squirm, but is also informing anticapitalist idealists right here in the U.S. that Communism is not working...
...scaling the gates of the strikebound Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk last August to lead what may be the most remarkable workers' revolt in the history of organized labor, Lech Walesa showed the world that the "inevitable" march of history is no match for the indomitable spirit of the individual will...
...Lech Walesa has given new life to the motto "Workers of the world, unite...
...hate strikes," Union Leader Lech Walesa told a group of journalists last week. That remarkable statement by the organizer of last summer's mass shipyard strike was symptomatic of the conspicuous spirit of conciliation that both labor and government strained to maintain as Poland's year of peril came to a close. Communist Party Boss Stanislaw Kania demonstratively placed wreaths on monuments that had been erected in the northern port cities of Gdansk and Gdynia to honor workers killed by police and troops in 1970. Kania's gesture was of high symbolic importance, since it signified...
...that only a few weeks before had threatened a deadly holiday for the U.S.S.R.'s nettlesome neighbor. The turmoil-weary nation enjoyed a calm but austere Christmas, free for the moment from the testy confrontations between the authorities and the independent new Solidarity unions led by Worker-Hero Lech Walesa. Thanks to a last-minute rationing plan, stores in many areas were stocked with requisite hams and trimmings for Christmas dinners, though lines were still long...