Walesa calls for change

Press, 10 March 1984, Page 11

Walesa calls for change

NZPA-AP Warsaw Lech Walesa, in a statement? 4>n the Polish economy;; blamed many of the nation’s troubles on (the Communist system whichihe said * places “uncontrolled and ifolimited power” in the hands’ of a few. He called for a/compromise. “Iris my opinion, the main cause) of the crisis can be identified as the economic omnipotence of the party and State apparatus, that is, uncontrolled and unlimited power,” Mr Walesa said in a statement obtained by the Associated Press yesterday. Mrs Walesa said the fivepage l document, which was dated Wednesday, was one of four he had promised to issued in his statement of last 16 which markfed the anniversaries of workers killed in clashes with the authorities, one two years ago and the other 13 years l previously. The shipyard electrician and Nobel Peace laureate said last month he was working with his on the paper. During its 1980-81 legal existence, the now-outlawed Solidarity

trade union disseminated policy critiques drafted by intellectuals sympathetic to the free union.

Mr Walesa, who sought to end the Communist monopoly in Poland during the union’s heyday, coupled his criticism with a renewed call for the authorities to make “a new political compromise.”