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...nicest soccer I've seen here," a pleased Scalise said after the game, adding. "The freshmen look very good, but we still have a long way to go to polish our game...
First came a demand that the Polish parliament call a national referendum on the crucial issue of worker self-management. Under pressure from the union, the government had already put its own limited proposal on the issue before parliament. But Solidarity was now insisting on a far more sweeping plan that would give local workers' councils at most industrial enterprises broad decision-making powers, including the right to choose their own plant managers. Should the legislators fail to call a referendum and instead enact the government bill, the union threatened to boycott the law and "carry out the reforms...
Standing at the wooden lectern, beneath the emblem of a silver Polish eagle and a crucifix, Walesa told the delegates: "I am in the union to win battles and not to lose them. But if we do not have a strong leadership, we shall be losing battles." He added: "This will be my dictatorship for the coming two years. When we have nothing, and are headed for a clash quite soon, we have to be hasty and somewhat dictatorial." Criticizing the delegates for their internal bickering, he said that some of them were acting "like a bunch of clowns...
...recent months, leaders from all quarters of organized labor have mounted a political assault on the president and his conservative economic policies. Organized labor's chief rallying-point has been Reagan's dismissal of 12,000 striking professional air traffic controllers, and the success of Polish workers in establishing an independent union in opposition to their government's wishes. The most visible demonstration of labor's disenchantment with the current administration will be Solidarity Day, a chance for workers from all across the country to march on Washington and protest Reagan's stance toward labor. Speaking at the recent Labor...
...attempts at word association, Solidarity Day is in no way an emulation of the Polish worker's struggle against their government, but a deliberate attempt by union leadership to restore the public confidence in American labor unions. But the president's heavy-handed handling of the air traffic controllers strike may have afforded the AFL-CIO a chance to bring back some of the romantic mythology that grew out of labor's advance during the Progressive and Depression eras, a tradition now neglected as workers strived for and achieved middle-class status...