The World - News from June 29, 1987

Solidarity founder Lech Walesa and a Roman Catholic priest demanded that the Polish government respect a 1980 pact that legalized the since-outlawed independent trade union movement. Walesa told supporters outside a church in Gdansk that Pope John Paul II and Father Henryk Jankowski “told us we should not give up this which we had achieved.” The comment was in reference to the 1980 Gdansk accords between Polish a1970563183Shipyards, where Walesa is still employed. Jankowski said, “The Polish nation is still waiting for the implementation of the agreements.”