Word: szczecin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former Solidarity leader was one of tens of thousands of demonstrators who turned out in cities across Poland last week to mock official government ceremonies honoring the international workers' day. Riot squads drenched Solidarity supporters in Warsaw and Czestochowa with water cannons. There were other demonstrations in Szczecin, Lublin, Wroclaw and Poznan. Government Spokesman Jerzy Urban brusquely dismissed the May Day protests as "pitiful" but announced that the police had detained 684 demonstrators for questioning...
...daring night flight across the Baltic Sea the day before the funeral in Nowa Huta, 15 adults and five children defected to Sweden in a single-engine biplane used for crop dusting. After taking off from a rural airport near the Baltic port city of Szczecin, the pilot managed to avoid detection by turning off his lights and flying at an altitude of about 300 ft. Explained the happy but exhausted Poles after a safe landing near the city of Malmo: "We are all Solidarity members. That is why we fled." Most others had no choice but to express their...
...three-week-old martial law regime ended at the Piast mine in Silesia last week when 1,100 weary and hungry workers decided to give up their demonstration after occupying their mineshaft for 14 days. But across Poland, a wave of passive resistance was beginning to swell. In Szczecin, dockworkers were reported to be loading and unloading the same goods over and over again; at the Zeran auto plant in Warsaw, workers were said to be making parts that would not fit together...
Once more the strike sirens were wailing across Poland. First, 35,000 dockers at Baltic seaports from Gdansk to Szczecin walked off their jobs for an hour. The men were demanding improved working conditions and benefits. Next day, most of the 6,000 employees of LOT, the national airline, quit working for four hours. Reason: they claimed the right to name the airline's new director. (At week's end the LOT employees accepted the government's appointee as "president" but insisted that their candidate actually run the airline.) Finally, transport workers in the northwestern city...
...farmers' demand for recognition of their own independent union, Rural Solidarity. But the protests also raised a broader complaint: the government, the unions claimed, has failed to carry out a number of promises contained in the historic agreements signed last summer not only in Gdansk, but also in Szczecin and Jastrzebie. Among them were pledges to increase Solidarity's access to the press, free political prisoners and reduce censorship. As Union Leader Lech Walesa put it to a throng of followers last week: "Let's not fight for local goals. Let's fight for wider goals...