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...their tools for five hours at several plants. They were protesting the government's failure to prosecute officials responsible for repression against local workers following the 1976 food price riots. In an apparent effort to head off a spiraling new round of labor upheavals, Jaruzelski invited Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa to meet with him in Warsaw on Saturday...
...agreement with the farmers likely to win favor from the Kremlin's leaders. Though the Rzeszów peasants had apparently been persuaded by Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa to suspend their demands for an independent union, they had also wrested two significant promises from the government. First, Warsaw agreed to increase the proportion of state funds invested in private agriculture, which produces 80% of the country's domestically grown food. Second, independent farmers would be allowed to purchase unused state land, which would increase the amount of privately owned farm land. Both provisions, obviously, flew in the face...
...agreed to convert a party sanitarium into a public hospital. After Jaruzelski's dramatic public appeal for a 90-day moratorium, Solidarity's national commission in Gdansk canceled a threatened printers' strike and ruled out all other work stoppages for the time being. But Union Leader Lech Walesa added that "our ultimate response to the call for a moratorium will depend on what happens during negotiations with the government." Those union-government talks currently under way concern a range of topics: the drafting of a new trade union law, the granting of radio and television time...
Union Leader Lech Walesa at first hailed the agreement as "the greatest success we have achieved so far." Solidarity's militants, however, felt that the union had given up far more than the government-notably by agreeing to work every fourth Saturday. In effect, that abrogated a guarantee of work-free Saturdays, which the government had promised in last summer's historic strike settlement. Solidarity's national commission wrangled for eleven hours before voting to accept the pact, which the final union communiqué coldly described as "falling far short of expectations...
...summer's unrest. The wildcat protests threatened to destroy Solidarity's hard-won unity and shatter the delicate detente between the union and the state. "We must stop all the strikes so that the government can say that Solidarity has the situation under control," warned Union Leader Lech Walesa. "We must concentrate on basic issues. There is a fire in the country...