Word: wroclaw
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...seemed. Next day police in Wroclaw attempted to serve a summons on another Solidarity adviser, Adam Michnik, a co-founder of KOR. Michnik, 38, refused to accept the document, which ordered him to appear at the state prosecutor's office in Warsaw in three days. In a move that heralded a possible direct worker-government confrontation, Solidarity's Wroclaw branch took Michnik under its own protection and provided him with a 30-man "workers' guard...
...outside, which had been severed in an effort to isolate Gdansk. The strikers promptly used their newly restored communications to coordinate their actions with other strike centers and even dispatched delegations to proselytize in the interior of the country. Soon new strikes were reported in such cities as Wroclaw, Lodz and Rzeszow, raising the ante and putting added pressure on the Jagielski team...
Neither sermons, warnings nor concessions, however, appeared to sway the workers. On Wednesday, 30 new factories were struck in Wroclaw alone, including the massive PAFAWAG State Rail Transport factory. Walkouts also shut down the H. Cegielski heavy-machinery plant in Poznan. The next day, new strikes also spread to factories in Slupsk, Bydgoszcz and Grudziadz. By then the unrest had reached virtually every part of the country. Apart from the willful stoppages, the interruption of transportation links and the consequent lack of parts and raw materials forced many nonstriking factories to close down...
...Gdansk upheaval capped a seven-week wave of strikes in Poland, most of them protesting the sharp rise in meat prices since July 1. More than 200 factories and enterprises have been affected by unrest in such cities as Warsaw, Lublin, Lodz and Wroclaw. Since the strikes began, the government has offered pay increases totaling some $117 million, but has refused to lower meat prices...
...retaliate against strike leaders. Even as the Lublin walkout ended, other strikes were bursting out: at the Stalowa Wola steel mill about 50 miles south of Lublin, among transport workers in Chelm 40 miles to the east, among newspaper deliverymen in Warsaw, at an agricultural machinery plant in Wroclaw. The strikes came in the midst of an economic crisis that could compel the regime to impose further austerity. If it does, there are few signs that the people will go along...