Walesa to go back to work
NZPA-Reuter Warsaw Lech Walesa, leader of the banned Solidarity union, said yesterday he had been told to report to the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk on Monday to resume his job as an electrician. Mr Walesa has been trying to return to the yards, where he worked before becoming chairman of the independent union, since he was released from martial law internment last November. A spokesman for Mr Walesa said he was extremely happy to be returning to the shipyard, his old colleagues, and friends. He said Mr Walesa has been, on the payroll of the Lenin shipyard, the birthplace of Solidarity in 1980, since the end of January but had not been assigned a postal ’
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Press, 23 April 1983, Page 8
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