World IN BRIEF : POLAND : Walesa Says Historic Shipyard Will Strike
From Times staff and Wire reports
Solidarity founder Lech Walesa told Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki that disgruntled workers at the historic Gdansk shipyard--the labor union’s birthplace--will stage an anti-govern- ment strike next week. “The government is following a good road, but it is walking too slowly,” Walesa said. “ . . . The shipyard will go on strike against Mazowiecki and against Walesa on Monday.” The strike would be the first such protest against the economic policy of the Solidarity-led government.
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