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...counter-revolutionaries," thereby casting serious doubt on any chance for the farm union's legalization. Riot police were sent to break up sit-ins in Nowy Sacz and Ustrzyki Dolne. Though authorities stopped short of ousting the 400 workers and farmers occupying the old official union offices in Rzeszow, they refused to enter into any negotiations with the protesters that might resolve the tense local standoff...
...headquarters of the old official trade union in the southern city of Rzeszow, a drab concrete building that has been occupied for three weeks by members of Solidarity and Rural Solidarity, a sign says SOLIDARITY IS MORE THAN JUST A NAME. In fact the united front put up by the Rzeszow chapter of Solidarity appears to have the authorities there stymied. On the one hand, they have been unable to coax the occupiers out. On the other, they are equally unwilling to grant their main demand: negotiations toward legitimizing the farmers' union. The result is a standoff. Last week...
After police evicted Solidarity members from buildings in Ustrzyki Dome and Nowy Sacz two weeks ago, the next logical step would have been to stop the larger occupation in Rzeszow. But the authorities hesitated too long. As one Solidarity official said, "We got in touch with our people in all of the major factories around here and let them know that if the police interfered here there would be a general strike without further notice...
...father and the peasants and workers are the children. If the father is a drunkard and is not good to his children, they will pay him back in kind. But if he is good to his children, they will pay him the respect he is due." At Rzeszow this particular family feud may continue for some time, perhaps as a waiting game neither side...
Nonetheless, workers of the region counterpunched with a pair of "warning strikes" to protest the police action. About 100 small factories around Przemysl were shut down for an hour early last week. Workers also laid down their tools for two hours at 30 plants in and around Rzeszow, a city of 100,000 near the Soviet border. Rzeszow labor leaders warned that the whole southeastern part of the country would go out on strike if police tried to clear out the 350 demonstrators who have occupied the offices of the old party-controlled Trade Unions Council for the past three...