BRIEFS AND COiMMENTS
Aa tscrkers in Dublin and ozker porta of the country continued Hi* yesterday, Poland'sarty politburo issued a
POLAND: Politburo Statement on Strikes
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cGsrrtticue reportedly implying that such activity could result in Soviet inzervenitort.
Lublin is onlviles from the Soviet border, and
the communique warned
that the strikes couldnxiety among ourtatement could have an adverse effect on tha situation by further antagonizing the disaffected Polish worker*. The politburo alsopecial coraiission headed by Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski to review*
workers *derr.anda, but onl^ after they returned to their jobs, b
tnerc arethat workers willeneral strike andass meeting outside party headquarters today. Suchwould present the regime with its most serioussince the unrest began earlier this month and would increase the chances that violence could break out.
n Chelm were also on strike yesterday, and
laborers in many
areas ot Poland are holding "discussions' about wage Workers in various parts of the country probably are engaged in job actions; In addition to pay increases, strikers are also asking for family allowances equal to those of the police and military, new union elections, and immunity for strike leaders.
The party central committee onuly reportedlypay increases for transportation and municipa workers in various parts of Poland, including Lublin
attempting to be situation very poorly
the regime, al-nciliatory, is handling the
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The government's efforts to deal with striking workersase-by-case basis only seems to increase the stoppages. Settlement of one strikeage increase leads to others as workers seek the rewards walkouts are clearly bringing. Moreover, zcm* plants where settlements have been reached are being struck again, presumably by workers who believe that the reward! they have obtained are less than those secured bv other strikers.
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