Ask anyone and they will tell you how each striker has a say in the movement. A young woman from a preserved food factory in Gdansk, per OI the 750-strong worktorce are women. told me:
'I've been here for six days, but our strike was really decided only yesterday. The director first proposed a meeting with the picicel, and he himself nominated delegates Many consultation.
These discussions were viously useless.
"hen came here, when I went back we elected our own committee. workers. one tor each department, were elected by a show of bands aller daiscussiona there are two of us here, and we report back twice a day on what has been going on. As for the director, he's vanished from the scene. Permit I ask if her factory is occupied. She shows me an MKS permit: 'We are continuing to work. What we produce is of use to the strikers. We have the permission of the MKS.
This is true of a number of concerns. The trains serving the urban concentration of Gdansk, Sopot and Gdynia run every ten minutes because they're vital. Often the engines are decorated with Polish flags as a sign solidarity.
It was in this conference hall that deputy prime minister Jagielski arrived on the evening of Saturday 23 August. days after the movement had started in the Lenin shipyard, recognised the MKS.