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...young fire fighters provoked a heated response from Solidarity locals throughout the country. The movement's leader, Lech Walesa, immediately told his 9.5 million members to get ready for a strike alert. At an emergency meeting of Solidarity's twelve-member presidium in the industrial town of Radom, union leaders accused the authorities of having wrecked all chances of national reconciliation. "By opting for violence," they declared, "the government has jettisoned the possibility of a dialogue with society...
What the two men did not do, however, was resolve other volatile issues that could at any moment erupt into a new wave of labor upheavals. In Radom the local Solidarity chapter was threatening strikes at 340 factories. In Poznan 490 farm delegates gathered from all over the country to join forces in a 2 million-member organization that was loudly demanding legal status as an independent agricultural union. In Warsaw and other centers, union members and their advisers claimed that they were being subjected to police harassment. Last week, for example, Dissident Leader Adam Michnik was detained by Warsaw...
Perhaps not. But if the game could be saved at all, union and government leaders would have to work fast to resolve their remaining conflicts. The most immediate potential flash point was Radom, a grimy industrial city 60 miles south of Warsaw. On Thursday, members of the local Solidarity chapter unanimously voted to launch a two-hour work stoppage this week-and a province-wide genera strike on March 23-unless the government begins talks on a set of 19 demands. Foremost among them: the sacking of the provincial governor and other officials responsible for the brutal suppression...
...Radom strike call was issued in spite of Walesa's personal appeal for moderation. After his meeting with the Polish Premier, Walesa assured Radom Union Leader Andrzej Sobieraj that the offending government officials would be dismissed within a few days. Replied Sobieraj: the Radom chapter would postpone its strike plans, if-but only if-those dismissals actually materialized. At week's end, the Communist Party newspaper Trybuna Ludu reported that one official, the Radom party chief, had secretly resigned ten days earlier...
Local authorities in Radom, however, often seemed to be doing their best to intimidate the restive workers. Police last week temporarily detained about 20 union members for putting up wall posters. Union officials also claimed that citizens were being fined by police simply for reading Solidarity leaflets, and that four Radom youths had been beaten up after telling a man to stop tearing down Solidarity posters...