Socialist Challenge reporter just returned from Poland POLISH workers know the big tests are still to come. They have dent trade unions. Millions workers them and the unions have collapsed.
BuI the threat military intervention remains. The Polish bureaucrats are roll back the gains the victorious strike wave. stalled WeeK registration of the biggest union, sondarniuse port of millions of workers.
I asked Lech Walesa, the best-known strike leader, what were the problems had to deal serious faults in the building and agricultural areas, ' he said.
•We must look at these areas carefully and solve them quickly.
have receve u from the government in relation to Leona rouses.
Many of the official unions maintain their old structures call themselves 'independent'.
"There is no other Id unions must be destroyed first ill then Walesa remarked The tormer strike leaders are less clear on the next steps. They hope that the elections in the new unions will bring - politicians to lead the readers won indepenhave joined state-run Soviet trying to made through They which has the supthat Solidarnosc gles.
"There kind COT the shipyard.' Lech Walesa but drawn U11 alternative The dies,' threat? about this.
forward Mell workers through the next strugOne Gdansk shipyard worker told me: 'All the unions are at present working side by side, but in the future we plan to organise a workers' representing all the unions within would not be 'political questions.
What did he think of the reforms in the Polish Communist Party?
- I am not a party member Soviet military intervention still a We don't question Can say allyll What will the government do if it fails to block the development of GDYNIA workers see no contradiction between Catholicis Probably 95 per Polish people are Catholic. They see no contradiction between this and fighting for their rights in this contraception and abortion all go on; the people merely go and confess.
Some look to the West and see that we have material things they don't. They feel they are fighting 'Russian communism' socialism. The queues and shortages are blunders government, HOL evil shortages unbelievable. Poland is one of the biggest producers of sugar, yet it has been on ration for three vears! There were queues everywhere for meat, e wearing is for aces.- and potatoes. the of are Collection for