The World - News from Feb. 8, 1989
About 5,000 Polish coal miners pressed ahead with a strike, apparently defying appeals by two emissaries sent by Solidarity leader Lech Walesa. The miners said they stopped work shortly after midnight at the Belchatow mine, 90 miles southwest of Warsaw, after talks with management broke down. The strikers have demanded more pay but said they did not want to disrupt round-table talks in which the government is seeking a deal with the banned Solidarity union to help solve Poland’s economic crisis.
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