THE following letter, addressed to all Solidarity activists, was signed by Zbigniew Janas, the chairman of the Solidarity chapter at the large Ursus tractor factory outside Warsaw and a member of the union's National Committee.
From the available information about the ac. tivities of the police and the Security Service and from the stepped-up propaganda against Solidarity members, we can con clude that the military regime is aiming to smash Solidarity and society. What activities should Solidarity members undertake?
1. It IS: for representatives union to link up and collaborate with each both within each factory unit and among different workforces: achieve this and to coordinate activities, prove the flow of information.
This will also serve to relay the experiences of the union. It is necessary to achieve between those in the factories and those outside, and with Its am to private homes outside of working hours.
2. It is indispensable to organise broad material and moral support for the families of those arrested and persecuted. This must be carried out in a regular and ongoing way. Therefore it is organise collections of money from friends in the work brigade and union groups.
It must be remembered that such activities arouse solidarity among people and make the deprivation anyone impossible. These actions must be undertaken immediately. considering the weight of their moral influence over people.
3. It establish contacts underground publishing houses with the aim of distributing leaflets and all other unofficial publications. This activity is enorSocialist Challenge mously important in light of the complete propaganda broadcast by the mass WnICH lies. slanders, and distorts the January issue Oliver Economic cheques tional", don N1 2XP.
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This activity must be carried out great considering the SourCeya SEGUELY CHTCHS COnSECURACHS But do not lightly give up features MacDonald on WIEn Joan Ruddock of CND, Ernest Mandel on British Disaster and much more! Just 60p per copy, or f4.50 for an annual subscription. Send to InternaPO Box 50, Lonthese activities without considering the security threat. 4. Strictly union activities must also be undertaken. The elimination of all rights and the increase in the number of reprisals by THESEE tatives and party activists makes it necessary to oppose such actions with all our strength, and to gather the names of those who have attempted to carry out these types of actions.
With this aim, files relating to illegal and antipeople activities party and administrative apparatus must be established. These files should be decentralised so that the loss of one does not lead to the loss of all of them. To the extent that it is possible. it is vital to print illegal documents distribute among the workforce.
In this difficult period. these activities must not be left to the future: the raising of labour concepts the establishment of new collective arangements and the carrying out of other legal activities that help workers, such as those concerning safety and health conditions. This is important so that the authorities themselves do not imagine that our powerful organisation can be destroyed by one or a Tew blows 5. Written protests must be made, both individually and collectively condemning the actions of the military junta and demanding freedom for arrested union activists and the restoration of society's independent rights. These should be legibly signed. since only then will they have propaganda and moral value.
6. In anticipation of explosion, necessary to prepare for the proclamation of a strike *Thesd preparations must be carried out in great secrecy. With this aim, clandestine committees must be set up, which snou under take the organisational preparations They must however, carry out active resistance SInCE that could lead to bloodshed.
this country, the government, which claims to rest on the workers, has already spilled workers' Remember that they are murderers. It does matter to them how many ceocle are shot down it n serves their interests To conclude, l remind all activists that they were chosen through democratic elections for two year terms They were given this approval and nothing but nothing can prevent them from fulfilling their role of serv. ing those who elected them.
Remember: we cannot defend ourselves through ignorance or fear. Each of must RACHETE TRE they can do when it is possible, but also what to do when it is necessary to risk their jobs or even their treedom. in inese amcul days we must all prevent the destruction of Solidari ty, which is the only hope of Poles For us, the sun will shine once again.
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