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...party congress had come and gone, government officials had promised new approaches to old programs, but still the anger grew. In Warsaw, some 2,000 textile workers quit their jobs for three hours, and many municipal bus drivers refused to go out on their routes. In Lodz, the country's second largest city, caravans of trucks and buses drove into the center of town with headlights flashing and horns blaring to the cheers of thousands of approving onlookers. The vehicles were festooned with red and white national flags and banners bearing such blunt messages as HUNGER and WE STAND...
...Kozminski of Beverly Hills, Calif., said that she had come to Jerusalem "to find my sister, a cute little blond of 14 when 1 last saw her. I have the right to know whether she is dead or alive." Kozminski was unsuccessful, but did encounter a friend from the Lodz ghetto in Poland...
What they did was defuse a series of strikes in Lodz that threatened to shatter the country's fragile month-old labor truce. The day of the Walesa-Jaruzelski meeting, Lodz factory sirens had blared at 10 a.m. to announce the start of a one-hour work stoppage affecting some 250,000 workers. That warning action was to have been followed by a series of province-wide sympathy strikes and sit-ins. But Walesa and Jaruzelski worked out a last-minute agreement that satisfied the Lodz workers' key demand: reinstatement of five sacked employees of an Interior Ministry...
...national union leaders were having trouble reining in restive local chapters. Even before Kuron's arrest, workers in the textile center of Lodz declared a strike alert over the firing of five hospital employees. On Saturday, Lodz union officials scheduled a series of warning strikes for this week unless the five are rehired. The Solidarity chapter in Plock, meanwhile, prepared to issue a strike alert to protest censorship of their local union bulletin; entreaties from Warsaw union leaders, however, convinced them to hold...
...what price? In the Lodz agreement, the government granted a set of surprisingly far-reaching concessions to the students. Among them: the barring of police from campuses, a 30% student representation in each school's administrative senate, the abolition of mandatory Russian language study and a reduction in the number of required Marxist-Leninist courses. Most important, the students were granted an independent union-thereby establishing yet another potential power center outside the Communist Party...