Solidarnosc lives!
Sation POZMOW Polish car workers reading the first issue of Solidarity's independent newspaper. Solidarnosc calls general strike for 10 November PeT will AT ITS Annual General Meeting in We reprint the 9 October declaration of the clandestine leadership of Solidarnosc, the banned Polish trade union. It was issued in (Wroclaw|on behalf of the Provisional National Commission of Solidarnosc.
*The dissolution of all Polish trade unions is unprecedented in the civilised societies. With this act the military council recognised it had suffered a defeat The military council has failed to destroy the trade union movement, and its attempts to corrupt leading trade unionists have come to nothing.
For ten months during the state of siege, workers have showed their opposi tion to the of military repression.
illegal The Diet, the ver same which accepted the creation of the military council without and in breach of the Polish Constitution which endorsed the illega Council of decree which opened the state of siege, has dared against its elector's wishes to dissolve trade unions organising 90 cent citizens of Poland. It has thus deprived itself of its independent self-managed trade union. Solidarity, cannot dissolved except by decision of its members. Our eXISt: and pursue its activities to scil-managed republic Solidarnose's provimission clining al mission calls workers and unions to boycott the new fake unions. Refusal join these unions will constitute a type of national reterendum through which the national pro HOUSE against repression, against the enslavement of the people against deepening BALINCE thirty seven years and catastrophic economic policy.
Not to boycott the new unions would amount to treachery to the ideals of independent trade union movement. This in the annals of people's Poland and our rulers wil find it hard to falsify the results.
10 November, second anniversary of Solidarity's should be day of protest. We appeal all workers, regardless of trade union affiliation to protest massively and on a national scale against overty and the violation of the law.
On 10 November we oil four hours curation duration from 10 o' clock in the morning. The strike must be organised so inal its leaders are unknown. In every factory every workshop and in every sec must be set up to prepare protes November. The unfoldin of the demonstration wil trace out the future path of the union's strategy.
•Solidarity exists and will BRISL whether you like it or (Lech Walesa, addressing Solidarnose's first паtional congress
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the name of comrades Bujak (Warsaw), Lis (Gdansk), Hardek (Cracow), and Bednorz