Solidarity pair freed

Press, 28 November 1980, Page 6

Solidarity pair freed

NZPA-Reuter Warsaw The police have released two men whose arrest pushed Poland’s Solidarity free trade union into calling a general strike in the Warsaw area today, union officials have said. The officials said that a Solidarity printer, Jan Naroziak, and Piotr. Sapelo, an employee in the State prose- ■ cutor’s office who leaked him a secret document on dissidents, were freed during ■ the night under a form of bail. Their release.appeared to meet Solidarity’s pre-condi-tions for calling off the strike, but the officials said they were unable to say whether the stoppage would go ahead. The decision to free the two men was seen as another important concession to the powerful union. Informed sources said it was taken following a meeting of the Polish leadership. Leaders of the Warsaw branch of the Solidarity union were expected to * make an announcement about the planned strike later. . The arrested printer had copied a secret State document on dissidents which had been leaked to him from the State prosecutor’s office by the other man. Tn East Berlin, East Germany’s Communist leadership, evidently reacting to developments in Poland, has said that the party mustS; take more trouble to con-" vince ordinary people of its . right to exercise sole author- ■ ity in the country. A resolution passed by the ‘ policy-making Politburo and printed in all newspapers said it was particularly vital to persuade young people of ■■■ the benefits of the existing ■ political system. The resolution was the • clearest sign so far that the ’ East Berlin leadership has < grown uneasy over the party’s support after seeing the authority of the Warsaw 'eadership challenged.