POLAND: KANIA CONTINUES TOUGH LINE

Created: 9/5/1981

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POLAND: Kania Continues Tough Line

Party loader lania'i warning on Thursday that the government would not rule outtate of emergency in the eventtrike by radio and tslevieion workers underlines his deter-mination to prevent disruption of the electronic media. QammV

Thls is the first tims that Kania has publicly" .referredtate of emergency. In lata August he ' said thst the regime would notadio andstrike. .In ths faceationwide strike of radio and television, the government might initially declare . tate of emergency only In that Industry. fA%

Solidarity has not yet reacted to Kania's ststement. .Pressure,trike has come from the Solidarity chapter of radio and television technicians and not from the national leadership. On Thursday Solidarity chief Walesa said that the union would use all legal means to gain accessto the media.

fSsmmmmVunionti concluded that such strike would b* Illegal, semmms,

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he anion's national leadership may have difficulty, however, in controlling the technicians. In addition to their general complaint about limited union access to the media,.the technicians believe that the government.has not negotiated honestly and are angered by restrictions on their use of teles fscilitles. As early as mid-Augusthe technicians had drawnetailed strike schedule that would culminate et the end of Seutember in astrike of the electronic medi-.

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