Word: worked
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Katyn Forest massacre, and another asked about rumors that a new mass grave had been found. Walesa tried to deflect these inflammatory questions, but his answer must have troubled the Kremlin even so: "We do have to have a settling of accounts. Right now we have to work on odnowa." Some Solidarity theoreticians, while conceding the party its "leading role," tend to define that role narrowly. Says Jacek Kuron, a dissident intellectual and senior adviser to the union: "It means the monopoly of power over the police forces, the army and foreign policy. All other matters must be open...
...machinist at the Ursus tractor factory, twelve miles outside Warsaw. Although both have joined Solidarity, they could not be regarded as dissidents or malcontents. Says Krzysztof: "One shouldn't complain too much. I enjoy my work." Maria points out that a decade ago they were far worse off, living in a single attic room that they had obtained only by agreeing to care for their elderly landlady. Since then, Maria has gone to work to supplement the family income, which now totals 15,000 zloty a month ($500). The factory helped them get a three-room apartment on Ursus...
...each day (fruit juice, soup or goulash, sausage, bread, coffee, tea or milk), and gives them coupons redeemable at the factory for 3.2 lbs. of meat per worker each month for about two-thirds of what it costs, when available, at the butcher shops. But when Maria gets off work after an eight-hour day finishing steel tractor parts, she must stand in the interminable queues at the neighborhood supermarket. Half an hour alone is wasted waiting in line for the obligatory shopping basket she must use for purchases. Always poorly stocked, the supermarket has been virtually stripped bare during...
...Karasiewiczes' pleasures are necessarily simple. Because their work shifts start at 6 a.m., they go to bed early after watching TV; their favorite series are Rich Man, Poor Man and Washington Behind Closed Doors, with Polish voiceovers. Krzysztof, who has never traveled outside Poland, says: "If I had a choice of vacations I'd go to the U.S., but it's so expensive I don't even dream about it." Though the Ursus factory provides vacation centers for its workers along the Baltic Sea or in Poland's lake district, the Karasiewiczes prefer to spend...
Walesa became a strike leader at the Lenin Shipyard during the 1970 food price riots. Fired for his attempts at labor organizing in 1976, he found work in a machine repair shop and helped found the underground Baltic Free Trade Unions Movement. He was sent as a delegate to the official union elections in 1979, but was outraged to find the local party secretary controlling the vote. "Why have I come here, to elect or to applaud?" he demanded. The answer: an unceremonious sacking...