SEVEN million Polish workers defied the government and stayed away from work last Saturday. Eighty per cent of workers in the Warsaw area and a higher proportion on the Baltic coast supported the call from the independent union boycott Saturday working.
Polish workers have been campaian. ing for a five-day week for years. 1972 the troduce a forty-hour week by 1980. And in last August's Gdansk strike ine government pleagea to araw up pro posals on shortening the working week •une eno orlast vear But the government retreated, claiming that production would drop by 12 per cent if a five-day working week was introduced. They made more this time they offered to cut the working week by 1983, cut extenanig working nouts.
Solidarity to Back in agreements power promises:
out Saturday weekday More the working of Polish towards reducing Not the Steve right wing the Polish workers last sumover the registration of rural Solidarity. Polish Communist Party leader Kania has launched a vicious attack on attempts to set up an independent union for Poland's som farmers and peasants. The reaime is not too keen on another section masses being organised outside of their control.
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