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...days after the rally in the cemetery, a commentator in the party daily Trybuna Ludu recommended that Solidarity be declared a "closed chapter" and called for new unions organized at the factory level that would be similar to and as powerless as those in effect before Solidarity's birth in August...
Meanwhile, church-state relations seemed to be deteriorating rapidly. TIME has learned that Polish authorities may be contemplating the arrest of several Roman Catholic priests. An article in the party daily Trybuna Ludu accused some priests of involvement "in provocative and offensive political activity." That criticism was echoed three days later in a Radio Warsaw broadcast that charged members of the Catholic clergy with acting "irresponsibly." Specifically, they were criticized for spreading messages and "gossip" during their pastoral visits with the estimated 4,000 Solidarity union members and sympathizers who have been held in detention camps since...
...government blamed the Gdansk upheaval on the Reagan Administration's increasingly strident criticism of martial law. In particular, they attacked the U.S.-sponsored telecast Let Poland Be Poland, which was beamed by satellite to at least 50 countries last week. Complained Warsaw's party daily, Trybuna Ludu: "It is not by accident that the street demonstrations in Gdansk coincided with the so-called Solidarity Day [Jan. 30] proclaimed in the United States...
...Crackow and Chelm detained 15 Solidarity members for putting up strike posters. Nowhere, however, were the printers prevented from striking. The government ran off skeleton newspapers on army presses and managed to put out a sizable run of the armed forces daily, Zolnierz Wolnosci. The Communist Party paper, Trybuna Ludu, printed only 150,000 copies of its normal 1.1 million circulation. Most news vendors obeyed a Solidarity call not to sell papers...
When the walkout ended, the government first announced that the price of a loaf of bread would quadruple to about 50?, then announced a delay on the move. Trybuna Ludu reported that a meat-rationing program would be "reviewed" and that the present monthly allotment of 6.6 lbs. per person might be reduced rather than increased as had been expected. Solidarity spokesmen said they would continue to press for an economic reform package that would include subsidies for consumers with lower incomes. Otherwise, warned the union's Warsaw chapter, the price hikes could lead to "an explosion of uncontrolled...