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...used eventually. In the end, they were. Attacking in the dead of night, more than 2,000 riot police and elite commandos routed several hundred occupying strikers at the Nowa Huta steel mill near Cracow, reportedly injuring at least 40 of them. Meanwhile, police surrounded the more recently occupied Gdansk shipyard, isolating a strike force of about 1,000, which included Lech Walesa, legendary founder of the outlawed Solidarity independent trade union...
...midweek the crisis seemed to be abating. The Catholic bishops authorized five prominent laymen to serve as mediators in the dispute, evidently with the government's consent. But by the time the laymen arrived at Nowa Huta and Gdansk, the course of action was about to change drastically...
...GDANSK, Poland--Riot squads stormed a strikebound steel mill in southern Poland yesterday and crushed a 10-day-old strike, and thousands of police surrounded a Gdansk shipyard in a tense standoff with defiant strikers...
Strikes and protests were reported among bus and steetcar drivers in the northwestern cities of Szczecin and Police, among students in Warsaw and Gdansk, and briefly by shipworkers in Gdynia, near Gdansk...
...Gdansk, the area around the Lenin shipyard was cordoned off by thousands of police. The shipyard went on strike Monday, its fourth strike since April...