Word: shipyard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eventually. In the end, they were. Attacking in the dead of night, more than 2,000 riot police and elite commandos routed several hundred occupying strikers at the Nowa Huta steel mill near Cracow, reportedly injuring at least 40 of them. Meanwhile, police surrounded the more recently occupied Gdansk shipyard, isolating a strike force of about 1,000, which included Lech Walesa, legendary founder of the outlawed Solidarity independent trade union...
...hours after the storming of Nowa Huta, riot police and militia began cordoning off the shipyard in Gdansk, which had been occupied by as many as 3,000 striking workers for the previous three days. The plant management broadcast an announcement warning nonstriking employees, some of whom had continued to report to work, to remain at home until further notice. As the morning wore on, crowds of curious onlookers gathered behind police lines at the main shipyard gate, near the steel monument of three crosses erected by Solidarity in memory of workers killed in antigovernment protests there in 1970. Inside...
Solidarity chief Lech Walesa vowed to be the "last to leave," as the deadlock continued into the night at the Lenin shipyard in this Baltic port city...
...Lenin shipyard, chants of "Solidarity! Solidarity!" could be heard inside the steelyard...
...Gdansk, the area around the Lenin shipyard was cordoned off by thousands of police. The shipyard went on strike Monday, its fourth strike since April...