POLAND: GOVERNMENT FLEXIBILITY IN NEGOTIATIONS

Created: 9/2/1981

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POLAND: Government Flexibility in Negotiations

he government and Solidarity have earn to tarn on thenbution of ocal produced by minora who work voluntarily on eight Saturday* thie year, the firat timearaaw Pact governmentorkere'esour-ie allocation. "aTam*

Under the agreement, Saturday output will beated to privateood processing industries, electric power stations, transportation, and the miners. The increase in production now projected forilliona dally output four or five times that achieved'by voluntary mining on recentt '

Solidarity,.which expended some good" miners, is countingavorable response to demonstrate that its members are willing to increase their work ffort in returnreater role in decisionmaking. Many of the miners, however, accepted the agreement reluctantly and may still balk at doing the extra work. ven if the turnout is good, providing benefits for both sides, the government may be reluctant to accept similar-agreements in other economic sectors.

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The government has offered Solidarity somegenerous concessions on the union's demands for increased access to the media. triking display of good will the government yesterday provided Solidarity leader Walesa and several of his cc"leaguesinutes of radio and television time to present the union's views on current disputes. mTsseT

Walesa was generally conciliatory, but the others delivered some hard-hitting criticism of the regime. The militant head of the Warsaw regional chapter said that the union would not allow the regime to monopolise theaTsmT

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During talks on Monday on media coverage of the union's congress, the government offerad the union four hours of daily television reportage, proatiaed to include journalists from Solidarity on ths broadcsst teea,greed to allow Solidarity technicians to help produce the program. In return, the governmentledge from Solidarity not to carry out threatened media strikes at least until October and asserted that all programs.-would undergo normal censorship procedures.

'. '- The union leadership is tocheduledin Gdansk today and will consider the government The union's principal negotiator wasthat an agreement could be reached. leaders, however, may feel compelled toto avoid appearing unreasonable. ACommitteeto meet today tobe drawn into the

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