AI F LAT LOTTA P POLISH workers may be back on strike again next Wednesday. The Polish Court meets on the weekend to decide on the statutes of the biggest independent trade union, says it has 10m members.
Unless the removes from the statutes the insertions made by a Warsaw tribunal concerning the leading role of the Polish Communist Party' seems certain The Polish desperately trying to cool the situa tion following Soviet party chiefs in Moscow. They have already agreed to bring forward SUllIC _ot the within one agreements but subsequently delayed to next valuary.
Platform Perhaps most significantly have Solidarity will have the right to pro duce an independent weekly paper. At present the only other independent is the Catholic Pawszechny produced which is heavily censored Premier Pinkowski has requested that the new paper should not be used merely as a platform for attacking the authorities. A printing press destined for Solidarity Swedish workers' will be released from Warsaw airport by the authorities.
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Solidarity, which now Tense Supreme Court strike authorities supplies meeting the Crises promised month of the Gdansk the conceded that Tygodnik in Krakow, rested.
apparently sent bi organisations The Polish workers' leaders are demanding more concessions. They are insisting that any reference to the "leading role of the Polish Communist Party' be taken out of the union statutes. They want the recognition of the independent farmers' union as part of Solidarity.
They are also calling for an end to the harassment of the dissidents in KOR, and they are asking for an improvement in the situation of food - meat, sugar, and potatoes in particular are in very short supply.
The latest negotiations between authorities and Solidarity •epicsenalives lake place agalnsl al increasingly tense background As the Soviet leaders summoned Pinkowski and party chief Kania to Moscow, both the East German and Czech régimes tightened restrictions on travel to and from Poland in an attempt to minimise contact with the Polish 'experience' According to Le Monde the Interfactory Strike Committee in Warsaw is drawing up plans for resistance in the case of a military attack. The committee is consulting those who participated in the insurrection during the Second World War.
A replacement leadership has been created in case the present leadership, composed entirely of workers, is arWorkers in this country should step up their solidarity with Polish workers demanding that there be no interference in Polish affairs by imperialism or the Soviet bureaucrats.