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...strike at the Wujek coal mine, where at least seven civilians were killed in clashes with police on Dec. 16. The provincial prosecutor in Gdansk said that Solidarity's second-ranking leader, Miroslaw Krupinski, would be tried for trying to organize a national strike committee from the Lenin Shipyard after military rule was imposed...
...students and workers were arrested there after clashes with police on Jan. 30. Foreign journalists visited the area last week on a government-organized tour and found many workers unshaken in their loyalty to Solidarity. "We have to have unions as before," said a hull-assembly worker at Lenin Shipyard. "In this country, with its [Communist] system, it is not possible to have a true union that is not political. If the government will not give it to us, then we will have another August...
...Poland's ill-fated democratic experiment had a capital city, it was surely the Baltic port of Gdansk. Solidarity, the independent trade union, was born in the city's sprawling Lenin shipyard in August 1980. When the government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski crushed that movement last Dec. 13, it died hardest in Gdansk. Three days after martial law was declared, protesters there engaged security forces in pitched battles that, according to the government, left at least nine civilians dead. Gdansk continues to resist. The government announced last week that new street clashes near the Lenin shipyard had ended...
...Kansas, seemed at the time a strong candidate against the fraying New Dealers; even some conservative Democrats thought they must combat what they considered an ominous drift toward the left. (Former Presidential Nominee Al Smith accused the New Dealers of trying "to disguise themselves as Karl Marx or Lenin or any of the rest of that bunch...
...story to a publisher before even setting out. An almost perfect example of occasional verse is "I Paint What I See." It pits radical Painter Diego Rivera against Nelson Rockefeller in discussion of the artist's huge and bustling Radio City mural that contained a head of Lenin...