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Meeting in Gdansk under Lech Walesa's leadership, Solidarity's national commission said it had no intention of calling any strikes in the next two months, but warned, "No resolution of the parliament will prevent a strike if the security of our union is threatened or a glaring violation of the law occurs...
...reforms were already affecting the country's political customs. Looking incongruously like Western politicians on the hustings, officials fanned out across the country last week to meet with factory-level party units and solicit their support. Applause was not always forthcoming. At the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Kania fielded sharp questions and criticisms from about 3,000 local party members. Demanded one worker: "Now we ask you, Comrade Kania, if you will help us carry out the renewal of the party and the nation. If not, we shall do it by ourselves." That bold assertion drew a standing ovation...
...next four hours all Poland held its breath. In Warsaw, trams and buses draped with red-and-white national flags sat idle in their barns. In Silesia, brawny coal miners folded their arms and refused to descend into the mines. In the Baltic port of Gdansk, where last summer's strikes first launched Poland on its present, breathtakingly dangerous course, shipyard workers laid down their welding torches and rivet guns...
...addition, local chapters were instructed to move their headquarters into major factory compounds in preparation for a general strike. Walesa was named to head a ten-man "strike command" committee that would operate from the Gdansk shipyard where last summer's labor revolt had begun. Finally, in an obvious reference to the intimidating Warsaw Pact troop maneuvers, the union issued a pledge not to "jeopardize law and order or Poland's foreign alliances...
...strikes against him. Says Wajda: "He performed without any stage fright and even joked that he might want to join the film company." His one scene yet to be filmed will show Walesa taking a meeting on the coast-this one at the gates of the historic Gdansk shipyard...