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...brick building at the University of Lodz, eleven student strike leaders and four government negotiators faced each other over two green cloth-covered tables. On one wall hung a six-foot white paper cross; on the others posters bearing slogans of protest and defiance. At 4 p.m. Sociology Student Krzysztof Pakulski began to read a complicated agreement that had been hammered out and haggled over during two weeks of often hot-tempered negotiations, and which now signaled the end of a spreading student strike. When the accord was signed an hour later, triumphant cheers erupted from the 800 students assembled...
...seemed. Within hours of the Lodz settlement, sympathy strikes ended at the University of Warsaw and 19 other campuses. In the southeastern city of Rzeszów, meanwhile, a seven-week farmers' sit-in ended after government negotiators signed agreements with peasant leaders there and in nearby Ustrzyki Dolne. Just seven days after the new Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski had issued his dramatic appeal for "90 days of calm," peace, it seemed, had broken out on all labor fronts...
Perhaps the most significant action of all was a sit-in staged by 5,000 of the 9,000 students at the University of Lodz, 40 miles southwest of Warsaw. Students were in the hazardous forefront of Poland's violent anti-Soviet demonstrations in 1968, but they had taken little part in the latest upheavals. Last week they mobilized, occupying academic buildings at Lodz and settling in for a siege with sleeping bags. Among their demands: fewer courses on Marxism, less emphasis on Russian-language instruction, and an end to restrictions on foreign travel...
Although they pulled back from the brink of a major confrontation in Warsaw, the increasingly militant workers are plainly in no mood to pussyfoot. In two towns last week they occupied government offices. Textile employees also walked off the job in Lodz, and pay disputes interrupted operations at a reported 30 coal mines in the industrial region of Silesia. Commuter lines in Warsaw and Gdansk were briefly shut down when railway workers and the government clashed over how to distribute $6.3 million in pay raises. TASS, the official Soviet news agency, warned that "the threat of a general transport strike...
...social benefits of workers who join the new organizations. Others mocked promises of internal reform by official union leaders anxious to hold on to their original membership. Still others blasted the government for withholding information about the new unions in the press. Said a bus driver from Lodz: "We should have unity as soon as possible so that we can oppose these problems...