Polish printers strike
NZPA-Reuter Warsaw Polish printers were expected to begin a 48-hour strike today silencing the official press for two days in what would be the first strike of its kind in Communist East Europe. The printers said they would go ahead unless the Government reversed a recent media campaign against the Solidarity free trade union and gave the .union free access to radio, television. and newspapers. A leader of the union’s powerful Warsaw branch, whose members produce all major national dailies, said he did not expect any sudden concessions from the Com- 1 munist leaders.
Solidarity’s national executive was scheduled to meet in the southern industrial city of Katowice to consider the closure by the authorities of a local union publication and other matters.
Closure of “Wolny Zwiazkowiec” ("Free Unionist"), which was accused of being anti-Soviet, added impetus to threats of a printers’ strike. Warsaw Solidarity said its leaders were also considering asking journalists from radio and television to join the strike. Printers called on delivery workers for support and threatened further, action if management tried to produce newspapers.
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Press, 19 August 1981, Page 8
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