doctor law. who is a great man; he is still our adviser. He helpec everybody was very surprised, because court. I was paid damages.
Still they continued with their reprisals against me. Sometimes they would lock me in the cloakroom shipyard for two or three So that they could say I was late for work and work and climb down from the crane to find out What was wrong, and they used that as a pretext for charging me with leaving my work station. This happened many times. Trials But every time I was fired, I fought in court and was reinstated. I had six .The judge was surprised that these cases kept coming to court, because the management had no Our friends handed out these leaflets on August, and that was the day day the Gdansk shipyard strike began.
Jerzy: Hoout a putties people marched inrough the shipyard to the department, then the main gate, where we demanded that Anna be brought to the yard. It was a really beautiful action the part of the workers. Just before she was brought to nent befor the manager this strike?' And Walesa appearcu on tic excavalo. and announced: lead this strike. (Laughter) And he went into the manager's office to begin negotiations.
Walentynowicz: was hiding to avoid arrest bs the secret police, who kept survelliance. was at the medical clinic of the shipyard, which is outI went outside, to try to make to Warsaw, and there saw two familiar men the secret police getting out of a car. I understood that I couldn't make any phone because they were coming for me. I hopped onto a street car and went the part of Gdansk where I live By now there were four secret poncemen followly me. I went into a shop, as
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THE response to the Peoples March for shown the willingness of working people to stand up and fight rights. The tory over the Tories on redundancies how powerful we can be. So why do we have to take further punishment from Thatcher and her gang? Because the isting trade union leadership scared mobilising the strength back. tremendous Jobs has strike in that for their Movement (NMM), miners vicshowed makers'.
exstiff of of the working class and organising a real fight WICE TIC The working, class found founded, itself in a similar situation in the years leading up to the general The response made was National Minority its name from the familiar right wing and Tory press complaints about every problem being due of trouble1921.
Minority Movement described itself as 'an organisa- In employers non or mintant wrade unlonists realising the extent to present leaderst have committed themselves and membership have banded together to restore the original purpose and fighting spirit on trace amons were teadership with a policy based on a realisation of class struggle and a complete reorganisation or te mons...
20's the work. ing class had suffered some big setbacks. The Triple Alliance of railway, transport and mine workers mae collapsed in Its first big test, letting the miners down to serious defeat in e9s forced a intering the lockout to impose wage cuts. Unemployment grew rapidly to cent whilst union plummeted. The shop stewards movement col lapsed, decimated by redundancies.
The COLUM picked up during 1923-24, but the trend class confrontation developed the continued their fight to restore the rate of profit by wage cuts and longer hours. Actions The spring of 1923 saw the first big dustry since 1920 among dockers, vehicle builders, AULO workers, builders agricultural labourers and boilermakers. labourers.
In the autumn. the Com munist Party started a campaign to launch the Minority Movement.
The campaign began series of propaganda met aimed at uniting the vario around an action progr to fight the existing leade They aimed at fighti the leadership unions, a 'leadership upon a realisation of the struggle.
organisation NMM reflected its aims had sectoral and national tures based SCULUIC class wide demands.
The founding confere the Movement was August 1924 and was att by delegates of 270 org tions workers.
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