No Links with Jaruzelski's New 'unions'!
Socialist Organiser1982 1982-10-21Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 16 →
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E funeral, on Wednesday 20th, of Bogdan Wlosik, 1 be another demonstration of Polish workers' olve to resist the martial. law and the banning of works near Krakow, was shot. dead policeman on a demonstration last But generally the regime seems to have been able - for now! - to ride out the wave of revolt at the banning of Solidarnose. Gdansk shipyard workers went back to work after the yard was militarised, and elsewhere the regime did all it could to suppress and that they would be out for the four-hour general Many strikers retuming to work, however, insisted strike called by the underground Solidarnosc leaderEven the official news agency admits that the new stooge 'unions' are being massively boycotted. In £6000 fund Nova Huta the union has 13 members out of the 40,000 workforce, despite the fact that it already has an office and access to the internal steelworks radio.
In the Ursus tractor factory 90 people have joined Jaruzelski's labour front; at the FSC lorry factory in Luhlin 33: at the WSK aireraft works Swidnik. 20 and at the October Revolution printworks, Warsaw, Membership of the new 'unions' muşt be confined almost entirely to supervisors, managers, and careerists - and very thin even among them!
British socialists should make sure that our labour movement refuses to recognise these state unions, breaks links with their counterparts elsewhere in Eastern. Europe, and gives all possible support to the GPO. Signed articles SOA THE funeral, on will be anather resolve to resist Solidarnosc.
Wlosik, a 20-year old worker at Nowa Huta steel- sal by a plain-clothes week. The shooting was followed by riots and street clashes in Krakow on Thursday and Friday.
isolate workers' action.
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