Polish Demo
Socialist Organiser1982 1982-07-08Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 5 →
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• said that the local unions at Rowntrees were keen to help their fellow workers in South Africa in other ways, but not through a campaign which, if successful, would hit their own members and offer them nothing.
The only response AAM is capable of making to this kind of position is to say that there is no chance of their campaign affecting Rowntree's sales!
We cannot necessarily DESPITE six months of heavy martial law, more than 3,000 Polish workers turned out in Poznan on June 28 to commemorate the dead from major riots in the city in 1956.
Engineering workers from the Cegielski plant marched to the monument at the end of the afternoon shift to be confronted by riot police and water cannons.
In 1981, the commemoration drew a crowd of 150,000, addressed by Lech Walesa.