Word: radom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Poland provides a contrasting example of where a regime's inability to manipulate national sentiment has resulted in perhaps the strongest dissident movement currently in Eastern Europe. The Workers Defence Committee (WDC) set up in 1976 to raise aid for the victimised strikers of engineering works at Ursus and Radom has become an umbrella group for all opposition to the regime of Edward Gierek. The ability to forge a genuine alliance of interest among workers, students and intellectuals by common protest at a tangible grievance (in this case government plans for sudden massive food price rises in June...
...industrial city of Radom, where embattled workers burned down Communist Party headquarters in 1976, the latest issue of the samizdat magazine Robotnik (The Worker) began circulating last week. It focused on an injustice that weighs heavily on the Polish proletariat: lack of any real representation. Robotnik called for genuine workers' organizations to replace the officially sponsored trade unions, which the journal called "dead institutions...
...Poland. Volatile Poles continued to pressure the government over aftereffects of the food strikes and riots of last June. At that time, workers tore up railway tracks near Warsaw, set fire to Communist Party headquarters in Radom and brought the nation to a five-hour standstill until a panicked government rescinded a rise in food prices. When hundreds of workers were arrested, 20 prominent intellectuals, including Novelist Jerzy Andrzejewski, formed a Workers' Defense Committee to mobilize public support for the workers, who had been viciously beaten by the police...
...from three to five years, and gasoline has risen 70%, to $2.07 per gal., since 1973. About 1.5 million people must share their dwellings with other families; the waiting period for an apartment is often as long as ten years. Sixty miles south of Warsaw, in the town of Radom, where last summer workers set fire to the local Communist Party headquarters, a Catholic priest observed, "The mood is bad. People complain, they curse, they show little interest in doing their jobs properly...
Gierek quickly backed down and canceled the price increases. But that was only a temporary maneuver. In a show trial designed to brand the Radom protesters as vandals, six carefully chosen defendants-all had criminal records-were sentenced to four to ten years at hard labor on charges of looting and destruction of state property. At the same time nearly 700 ordinary Radom workers were hauled into summary trials held in secret. About 80% of them reportedly were given sentences of six months to five years at hard labor. Most of the others were dismissed from their jobs, which...