The World - News from April 27, 1988
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About 10,000 steelworkers near the southern Polish city of Krakow began a walkout to demand higher wages, the day after transport workers in two other cities won a 63% pay increase by striking. Lech Walesa, founder of the now outlawed Solidarity union, predicted that a wave of strikes will follow the successful walkouts by bus and tram workers in the northern cities of Bydgoszcz and Inowroclaw. The sudden flare-up of strikes is a reaction to government-imposed price increases, including a 40% boost in food prices announced Feb. 1 that was not matched by pay raises averaging $15 a month. Workers at the Lenin steel mill near Krakow are demanding a pay boost of $31 a month.
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