Word: tarnobrzeg
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...demonstrate Solidarity's good faith, Walesa repeated his call for an end to Poland's current welter of strikes. Earlier in the week, he had persuaded the 120,000-member chapter in Tarnobrzeg Province to end a ten-day walkout, but approximately 160,000 workers remained idle throughout the country...
...continued to spread. In the city of Zyrardow, near Warsaw, 12,000 textile workers entered the third week of a sit-in to demand more food. In Zielona Gora province, 150,000 workers continued their week-old strike to protest the firing of a local Solidarity farm manager. In Tarnobrzeg province, 180,000 stayed off the job because of inadequate food supplies. And in southern Sosnowiec, near Katowice, angry miners launched an open-ended strike to protest a bizarre incident in which some 70 people were injured when four bottles of poison gas were hurled at a mine entrance from...
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