Word: andrzejewski
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that time, workers tore up railway tracks near Warsaw, set fire to Communist Party headquarters in Radom and brought the nation to a five-hour standstill until a panicked government rescinded a rise in food prices. When hundreds of workers were arrested, 20 prominent intellectuals, including Novelist Jerzy Andrzejewski, formed a Workers' Defense Committee to mobilize public support for the workers, who had been viciously beaten by the police...
Some of Poland's best-known intellectuals have become active on behalf of the jailed demonstrators, who are serving up to ten years in prison. A defense committee, including such dissidents as Novelist Jerzy Andrzejewski and Economist Edward Lipiński, has collected $20,000 for the families of the jailed workers. Former Education Minister Wladyslaw Bienkowski addressed an open letter to the government, protesting police brutality against the workers. "It proves," he declared, "that some people have ceased to pursue the goals of serving the people and have become a gangrene transmitting the rot to other parts...