By Wednesday of last week at least 17 plants had joined battle. among them the power station, building WUINCES pharmaceutical factory, Ine cilvs flour mill, bakery and dairy works. and manual workers at a hospital.
regime responded the following day by sending the army into the city and dispatching party leader Edward Gierek Chelm, a town near Lublin - but not too close! - 10 bellow out a warnue mat resoonside actoni was threatening the 'country'.
Army trucks rumbled through ine city as troops distributed bread and milk, the bread apparently coming from the army's bakery.
These moves were met by rail, bus, and strikes brought the city to a halt. The rail strike began when engine arivers stopped a train on the : WarsawMoscow line. The Lublin secretary rushed to the train to beg the workers to move il into the city.
Dary menners eventually volunteered 10 do so, but were thwarted as the engine tve one noe in aren decided to strike. They elected a strike committee and drew up their RLI Poznar Legnica Dresden • Szklarska Poreba own O PRAGUE which Dally promise on TV on 9 July to raise family Delicits Lublin workers demanded tha they were raised immediately and brought into line with the famili benefits of the security services and the military - a 300 per cent rise.
Bydgoszcz •Torun Ciechocineke •Rawicz Sieradz Wroctaw Częstochowa Katowict Shland •Brno politburo meeting decided to set up year. a special covemamen commission under vice premier Jagielski investigate workers' grievances in LuOu Government leaders also spoke darkly of disquiet caused by