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...simply have to wait for a few days to see what happens," Adam Ulam, director of the Russian Research Center, said. According to news reports and U.S. officials, after a day there were scattered strikes in Poland yesterday but a threatened nationwide walkout did not materialize...
...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...
...unions, and 27% of union-household members said that no one should be permitted to strike. Only 55% of the American people favor unions, down from 66% in 1967 and 76% in 1957. Perhaps the last major public employee strike that enjoyed any measure of public sympathy was the walkout by postal workers...
...announced troop deployment, coming in the wake of a Central Committee threat to declare martial law, had ominous implications. So did the crescendo of official warnings against carrying out the planned national strike. Early in the week, authorities declared that Solidarity's walkout "would be met with actions commensurate with the threat." A group of party hard-liners raised the chilling possibility of "shedding fraternal blood." Moreover, the Soviet news agency TASS reported that "counterrevolutionary" forces were using the strike to "blackmail" the Warsaw regime...
...protest strikes, the party leaders had an undeclared ally in Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa. "I want to think that the strike will be the last one of its kind," he told workers at Warsaw's Rosa Luxemburg electronics plant on the day of the national walkout. Instead of symbolic protests, he suggested, the workers should resort to "active strikes," remaining on the job but distributing "what we make ourselves...