After 1 was fined I appealed to the workers for support, but tney didn't act because they were afraid. They thought that if someone is punished, there is nothing you can do about it.
But I knew against the law, because our rree was being held there, that I was not late.
So they parked a truck when I would yell no one could tell Where the voice was coming from.
Way they harassed me was to turn off the crane that I was operating. I had to stop members of the Free Trade Unions group, and decided to issue a leaflet telling who I am, , how long I had been working, how trials I had won, why I had been tried, and what the manager was now saying. Leaflet cavator which was used for people to on to speak.
Maciej: When the general manager sol up on tis excavator to speak - it was about nine o'clock in the morning; work starts at six Walesa appeared on the cacavalor. moAlina Pienkowska (a nurse at the clinic and a leading activist of the Fres Trade Unions group) and I locked Ill the ladies' room; we thought probably strike started and the police would try to seize us.
So I ran across the street against the traffic and rushed into a friend's house. From there I could see there were now plainclothesmen standing outside the house, looking around nervously.
When the car from the shipyard arrived at my home, my friends there who knew my usual hidin places they had made sure that it wasn't a trick, sent the car to where And of course 1 went to the shipyard And that the beginning of the Gdansk shipyard revolution of 14 August, 1980.
Now about the strike itself. After I returned to the shipyard and joined Socialist Challenge young people organised microphone amplitier. Ther Walesa joined us. It had Appropriate fi im to call for a solidari stirke, because five or ten minutes before, he had anOLI strike was over. Now that the first two gates were closed, we went together and closed the third.
But out of 16,000 workers, maybe only 6,000 remained me comra with other shipyards. About the time we did, I saw the genera motorboat. I made an announcement on one of the microphones near the gate. İ told the workers defence guard that the manager had left and that now we were the masters of the shipyard 18 June