For example the Gdansk: Agreement recognised the right of the free trade unions to organise the workers but it took a big struggle by the workers to finally official will recognition union by li November In many factories the bosses threatened the workers who tried to set up the free that they would lose their special holiday and housing rights and so on. There were lots of other conflicts during the months after Gdansk, the meaning of which was clear: the governeil didn't want such an agreement. Up until March 1981 the movement radicalised around the question of the implementation OT the Gdansk Agreement.
I was in Poland at the of the Bydgoszcz LIme events in March when the government organised the of the local workers' leaders. The workers prepared brilliantly organised general strike. For 10 days the workers were preparing for the strike, each person in each facEvery aspect of was coveicu for ha mpie information, the strike committee, food, a legal system, and workers' guards.
Il came very close 1o a general confrontation.
agreemen that was reached. !!!! manipulanon of the move.
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