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| _ The Central Committee of the Polish United Workers’
y meeting in Warsaw Oct. 17-18, accepted the resig-
Nation of former party general secretary Stanislaw Kania
and elected Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski as new party

er. .
1 | The Central Committee also called on Poland’s
| Parliament to put a stop to strikes and review the ac-
§ | Cords signed with Solidarity last year. The party’s lead-
1 | ‘Ng body is scheduled to reconvene shortly to continue
_ ltS review of the serious economic and political situation
+ ithe country. ;
| These actions followed the second segment of Soli-
darity’s congress in Gdansk lasting some three weeks
Which re-elected Lech Walesa as leader and adopted
; t . te openly anti-government and anti-socialist resolu-
ns.

Ina news analysis of the Solidarity Gdansk congress,
_ U.S. Daily, World staff writer Conrad Komorowski
q@| Makes the following points: |

| The debates and resolutions of the Solidarity Con-
ress in Gdansk show that the aim is to seize power,
 Climinate Socialism, and take Poland out of the Warsaw

_ Treaty Organization.

The failure of the most extremist factions to gain total
 ©ontrol does not change this situation.

§  _— Those in Solidarity who want it to function as a trade
(| _Union in a socialist system had no impact on the Con-
_ Bess, and the question now is, what will they do, where
_ Will they go?

Solidarity top leadership has gone far in setting up
forms of dual power in Poland, including the establish-
Ment of so-called ‘‘independent worker self-manage-
Ment committees.””
os Won't talk
| Last week, the government invited Solidarity to par-

- ticipate in a commission on food prices. The 11-member
Presidium elected by the Congress did not even reply to
the offer. Instead it threatehed a so-called “‘warning

tober 22 to Solidarity’s position.

_Zyrardow and other plants in two towns south of War-
saw. The factories are in the Mazowsze regional organi-
Zation of Solidarity, headed by one of the most intranst-

gent anti-socialists, Z. Bujak.
Defying moratorium

_ The strikes were called supposedly in defiance ofacall
by national Solidarity officials for a moratonum on
strikes until after talks with the government and the

_ However, extremists beat the gun. On October 13
workers were called out on strike in-11 factories in-

/

Strike’’ if the Polish government does not agree by Oc- ,

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THE WORLD —

|Solidarity’s challenge

New PUWP leader Wojciech Jaruzelski

encouraging supposedly ‘‘spontaneous’’ actions. The
aim is to embitter negotiations and make it harder to
reach agreement. ©
Refusal
Another issue on which the Solidarity Congress re-
vealed its power-grabbing aims was its refusal to accept
the Sejm’s (parliament’s) worker-management law, al-

though it had been considerably modified to meet Soli-

darity’s demands.

it has taken the position that if it disagrees. with laws
adopted by the democratically-elected Sejm, it will pro-
ceed on its own.

Aggravating economy

Instead of helping pull Poland out of its deep
economic, political and social crisis, the Solidarity Con-
gress was devoted to aggravating difficulties. Out-put in
the leading industries has fallen 25 percent.

The Congress took definite steps toward organization
of a political party without openly declaring this was its

intention. The emphasis on so-called pluralism — al-

though Poland has a Peasant Party, a Democratic Party
and many mass organizations — was one evidence.

: Bypassing Elected bodies 5
Another evidence was the emphasis placed on calling

for referendums on issues, instead of accepting laws ~

adopted by the Sejm. The Congress also called for elim-

for power

News Analysis

In pressing for its own conception of workers’ self-
management, the Solidarity Congress is seeking a form
which will enable it to control industry, independent ofa
centralized, socialist system and outside of a planned

economy.

The Congress was used as a forum for the unchecked
proclamation of anti-socialist sentiments, including de-
mands for the restoration of capitalism. =

Lech Walesa, elected the head of the presidium and
autocratic leader of Solidarity, did not hesitate to call for
a ‘return to the time of our fathers and forefathers.”’
Like the extremists, he blamed .all problems on

- socialism, the Polish United Workers Party and the

socialist system.

The Congress was turned into a factory for slanders
and lies directed against the Soviet Union and Poland’s
alliance with it.

Destabilization

In millions of copies, materials emerging from the
Congress are being spread throughout the country to
undermine confidence in the government and Polish Un-
ited Workers Party. :

This deliberate destabilization activity bears the ear-
marks of professional work by long-trained specialists.

One of the signs of the anti-socialist character of the
Congress and the dominance of anti-socialist elements
was the announcement that KOR, the leading anti-
socialist group in Poland, had dissolved itself. The
reason given was that KOR had served its purpose,
which would now be continued by Solidarity as a body.

The Polish United Workers Party has challenged Sol- ©

idarity on the grounds that it has violated the agreement

it reached with the government on August 31 of last year

and its charter as a trade union.

Walesa has declared that Solidarity is not a trade union
but a social movement. At the Congress, the attacks on
the government, Polish United Workers Party, Warsaw
Pact and Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
(CMEA) testified to deliberate violations of Solidarity’s
professed aims and policies. :

Polish workers who joined Solidarity on the basis that
it would carry out its professed aims face a serious
problem. >

Political Bureau member Stefan Olszowski, in a recent
speech in Prague, pointed out that many PUWP mem-
bers joined Solidarity in their factories and shops to

October 22 deadline. The situation is typical of maneuv-
ers used by the Solidarity leadership, which seeks to
Calm public anger by talking about ‘‘negotiations,”” while

_ Air systemincrisis —
__ It appears that President Reagan’s attempt to de-
Stroy the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organi-
zation (PATCO) and crush the strike by firing the
12,000 striking air controllers may be backfiring.
Nationwide plane delays 30 minutes or longer
have doubled in the last month and are six times
greater than they were before the two-and-a-half
month-old strike. Military and other inexperienced
personnel being used to scab on the PATCO workers
are becoming increasingly exhausted as a result of
10-hour days and six-day weeks with no vacations.
-'This situation is creating dangerous flight conditions.
With winter weather coming up, the delays and
danger to passengers are expected to increase.
The federal government’s new restrictions on pri-
vate planes seeking to use the depleted air control
System is not the solution.
Representative William Ford (D-Mich), chair of
the House Post Office-Civil Service Committee, has
questioned the right of any employer, in this case the
ae government, to permanently deprive a worker
Of a job. | ;
In firing the PATCO workers and decertifiying the
Union, Reagan hoped to intimidate all federal work-
ers, and from there, workers in private industry, into
accepting his anti-labor policies of takeaways in.
wages, benefits and working conditions. Working-class
unity, determination, militancy and solidarity can de-
feat these policies. Daily World

ination of the present electoral system.
The Solidarity program does not contain even the
word ‘‘socialism,”’ let alone any socialist concepts.

remain close to other workers and to help ensure that
Solidarity would function as a trade union in a socialist
system in which there are no capitalists.

USSR extends full diplomatic status to PLO

MOSCOW — The USSR, Oct. 20, extended full diplomatic recognition to the Palestine Liberation
Organization upgrading the PLO mission in the Soviet capital to embassy status. The decision was
announced during the brief visit of PLO leader Yasser Arafat to Moscow where he met with USSR president
Brezhnev. The Soviet decision was greeted by Arafat as ‘‘a very important political development.”

_ 200,000 in U.S. south lose welfare aid

ATLANTA, Ga. — The Southern Regional Conference, a non-profit research group charged that the
Reagan administration was ‘waging war on the poor’’ and that 200,000 welfare recipients will be deprived of
benifits under new eligibility regulations. Some 2.1 million in the south now receive some form of payment

~ under the Aid to Families with Dependant Children program. —

, Israel peace group issues appeal
TEL-AVIV — The Israeli Peace Committee against Israeli-American Strategic Cooperation has pub-
lished its appeal in the country’s large dailies warning against new Israel-U.S. military bonds. Titled: ‘Don’t
let Israel Become a Foreign Military Base”’, the appeal says the new cooperation “will increase the cold war

and arms race” and “‘harm the security and independence of Israel ... and endanger her very survival’’.
ee :

Plight of Pakistan’s political prisoners
KARACHI — The Communist Party of Pakistan has charged that the Pakistani regime is holding some
3,000 political prisoners ‘‘kept in solitary confinement and subjected. to. physical and mental torture’.
- Ina pubiic letter, the CPP says many are being questioned by Pakistani and U.S. intelligence agents and
that lately Chinese agents have joined the interrogations. Among those held are several major political
leaders and the daughter of former Pakinstani president Ali Bhutto.

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