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...removed six of his 19-man ruling Politburo. The party leaders had gathered at a Central Committee meeting simply to discuss the strike. Instead, Gierek found himself thrown into a bitter confrontation with his party rivals. He clearly emerged the loser. Ousted were some of his closest colleagues, including Premier Edward Babiuch and Jan Szydlak, head of the government's official Central Council of Trade Unions...
...other side of the bargaining table sat First Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski, 56, whose graying hair and well-cut suit gave him the air of a distinguished Western banker. A tough and experienced negotiator, Jagielski was flanked by a task force that had flown with him from Warsaw three days earlier. Jagielski entered the shipyard through a side gate in order to avoid the antagonistic crowd at the main entrance. Workers stared at Jagielski's team in icy silence, then broke into hearty applause when their own negotiators passed...
...leader," gushed an adoring young worker. Added a Gdansk taxi driver, "He has courage. People here admire him." The authorities too soon realized that Walesa, as head of the Interfactory Strike Committee, which forced the government to the bargaining table, commanded respect. At the negotiating table, First Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski unfailingly addressed him as "the Honorable Mr. Chairman...
...estimated 150,000 workers had walked off the job, and there were rumors that Warsaw would be hit by a paralyzing general strike. In an apparent attempt to head off that prospect, the government relented on its earlier refusal to deal with the strike leaders and sent a deputy premier to meet with them at their main center of Gdansk. Though initial talks dealt only with the ground rules for a possible negotiation, they were cheered by picketing workers as a significant gesture of recognition. Meanwhile, in a letter to national church authorities, Poland's own Pope John Paul...
...government team made little headway; in a tacit admission of failure, Gierek abruptly replaced Tadeusz Pyka as chief negotiator with Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski, a seasoned and effective bargainer. It was Jagielski who ultimately abandoned the divide-and-conquer approach, and met personally with a Strike Committee delegation?to the cheers of the picketing workers...