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...protests continued to mount, Solidarity's national commission held an emergency session in Gdansk to draw up a unified course of action. Seeking to counter the extreme demands of union radicals like Jan Rulewski, who called for an opposition political party, Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa warned of the dangers of being goaded into a confrontation. Said he: "Someone wants to draw us into a fight because we are winning." The union boss added that he would soon meet with Jaruzelski to discuss the crisis face to face. Walesa said his first question would be: "Shall we save the country...
Early last week Gwiazda blasted the compromise as "a deplorable political mistake" and accused Solidarity's leadership of "no longer talking to the grass roots." Rulewski said that "this union was not created to make compromises, but to smash the totalitarian system in our country." Finally, by a vote of 348 to 189, the delegates reprimanded their leaders for "a violation of the principles of union democracy" because so few people had taken part in the decision. At week's end, however, the delegates overwhelmingly adopted a resolution accepting the new government laws on worker self-management...
...minor incident in the northwestern city of Bydgoszcz. The trouble started on March 19, when some 200 policemen forcibly evicted Solidarity members from a provincial assembly hall for no apparent reason. According to the union, 26 of its members were beaten during the incident; three were hospitalized, including Jan Rulewski, leader of the local Solidarity chapter...
...ordered the unionists to leave. They refused-and were immediately attacked by 200 riot police. At least 26 of the 40 or so people who were in the group were beaten, some severely enough to need hospitalization. One of the most seriously injured was local Solidarity Leader Jan Rulewski...
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