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Before that dramatic announcement, more than 300,000 workers had gone on strike at 600 industrial enterprises in the northern port city of Gdansk and across the Baltic coast region. Sympathy walkouts had spread to at least a dozen other cities. Strikes also broke out among copper miners and ironworkers in lower Silesia...
Earl Clark Port Angeles, Wash...
Warsaw's leaders were hardly less bewildered themselves last week as a strike by shipyard workers in the Baltic port of Gdansk spread to about 400 factories and enterprises along the northern seacoast and affected key industrial centers in the south. By week's end an estimated 150,000 workers had walked off the job, and there were rumors that Warsaw would be hit by a paralyzing general strike. In an apparent attempt to head off that prospect, the government relented on its earlier refusal to deal with the strike leaders and sent a deputy premier to meet with them...
...White House will point to the $25 billion in programs to promote U.S. energy production and conservation that are already part of this year's Synthetic Fuels Corp. legislation. In addition, the President will promise to spend heavily for mass transportation and upgrade rail and port facilities for shipping coal. Three weeks ago, Carter told a meeting of the National Urban League that these energy proposals alone would create "literally millions of jobs...
Barge and port facilities are also insufficient. The export demand for steam coal in Europe increased by nearly 100% last year, yet buyers are unhappy about the delays in delivery. U.S. piers have little storage capacity, so that railroad cars stocked with the black stuff wait weeks to be unloaded. Port channels are neither large nor deep enough to handle the traffic. Through most of the summer there were about 50 colliers at anchor on any given day at Hampton Roads, Va., the largest coal port on the East Coast...