POLAND:
Government Faces Passive Resistance
major strikes al leant temporarily O'jar,eadcro will turn their attention to methcde of combating passive resistance. The Church hae reached an agreccni uith the regirw or. distribution of emergency food aid. 7ASS reporte continue te charge ihe US with ueing the Polish criaia to disrupt East-'seei negotiations. BmV
The Polish Government is claiming that productic is returning to normal, but absenteeism and passive sistance by the work force were evident yesterday, irst work day after the holidays, with the and of last officially acknowledged strike, at theiery in Silesia the regime probably has beguntrategy of intimidationelaxation of some martial lawcr passive resistance by workers. The government wl also have to decide how much carrot and how much to apply to obtain increased agricultural produc now-reluctant farmers. HB
The limited information available on work* yesterday indicates that the Government faces task.
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using public transportation serving industrial sites. Polish radio admitted that only two-thirds of the work force showed up at the Ziemowit coal mine andercent at the Gdansk and Gdynia Shipyards. The broadcast claimed restrictions on electricity and materials in the case of the shipyards as the reason for the personnel shortfall. fjf|
Unconfirmed reports point to scattered incidents of industrial sabotage. Workers at the large automobile plant in Warsaw are reportedly turning out parts that do not fit together. Strikers at the stool mill in Katowice evidently severely damaged the furnaces shortly before the strike was broken onecember, although theclaims that steel production resumed several days later at the huge works. H
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