Word: shipyarders
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...Seatrain decided to close the shipyard, but then another Government agency, the Economic Development Administration, stepped in with $50 million in loans to keep it operating...
...scaling the gates of the strikebound Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk last August to lead what may be the most remarkable workers' revolt in the history of organized labor, Lech Walesa showed the world that the "inevitable" march of history is no match for the indomitable spirit of the individual will...
...most ominous dispute, Solidarity's national commission passed a defiant resolution calling for a five-day week by declaring Saturday a nonworking day. Since most Poles are usually required to work a six-day week, this was a provocative departure. Several union locals, representing shipyard workers in Gdansk and Gdynia, coal miners in Silesia, and most of the 16,000 workers at the giant Ursus tractor factory outside Warsaw, threatened to force the demand by not showing up for work on Saturday. The Ministry of Labor, Wages and Social Affairs responded by instructing factory managers to dock...
...That could mean years of less meat for Soviet consumers, a prospect that should cause some concern for Kremlin leaders. While Soviet citizens are hardly as restless as the Poles, it was last summer's meat shortages and price hikes that touched off the worker demonstrations in the shipyard of Gdansk...
...work, commissions and exhibitions heavy enough to floor an artist half her age. It was her big year. In its wake, some 20 of her giant steel sculptures-scaled up from Nevelson's maquettes by the Lippincott works in North Haven, Conn., a foundry the size of a shipyard-are under construction for various corporate and civic bodies. She held a show of her wood constructions and collages at Wildenstein last spring, and throughout the summer a selection of her major "environmental" sculptures from the '50s and '60s-arrays and assemblies of separate pieces, meant to confront...