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...Harvard. "Almost daily I receive letters from unknown friends in your country, cards with wishes and expressions of good cheer. I have pondered what could link people living in such different political and social systems and so far from each other. What could link workers of the Gdansk shipyard and the scholarly community of Harvard University? I believe that this emotional closeness is based on a system of shared fundamental values. Their source is not hard to find; it is contained in every copy of the Bible. The workers starting the strike and the process of transformation did not refer...
...prevented a series of prudent skirmishes. The Communist leadership hopes the trip will demonstrate to the world that life in Poland has returned to normal. As if to emphasize that fact, Walesa received permission to resume the job of electrician, which he once held in the Gdansk shipyard. Still, the government during the week arrested some 30 Solidarity supporters suspected of planning unofficial protest demonstrations for the May 1 workers' holiday. At his press conference, Walesa protested that the union members had no intention of fomenting disorder. "If no one beats us," he said, "there will be no threat...
...report did not specify when Pinior was arrested. The announcement was made one day before Walesa was to return to his job as an electrician at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, where he helped lead the August 1980 strikes that created Solidarity...
However Walesa's readmission to the shipyard also puts him in direct also puts him in direct contact with the 17,000 yard workers who are his most avoid followers. Little is known about Pinior, who was treasurer of the Solidarity chapter in Lower Silesia before the Dec. 13, 1981, declaration of martial...
Meanwhile, the independent union's former leader, Lech Walesa, who was released in November after eleven months of detention, returned last week to the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk, where Solidarity was born. "I am your employee," Walesa told an official, "so I came to work." But shipyard personnel stopped the former electrician at an office just inside the gate and told him he could not be reinstated until he obtained a letter certifying that he was not employed elsewhere. They also asked him to respond to government accusations of irregularities in Solidarity's finances. As police moved into...