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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 2, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes tuesday september 2, 19bo . Unions others in West gave Aid to polish strikers labor Leader Lech Wal a to Tel vice Premier Kleczy slow. Signing pact in Gdansk to end strip Washington a Western labor unions contributed Money for food and All sorts of assistance to striking workers in Poland United Auto workers president Douglas Fraser say. Fraser speaking sunday on the lbs interview program face tic nation said the Money was fun cled quietly into Poland through the  federation of Metal workers in Switzerland. He refused to discuss other details including How much Money was involved and which other unions provided assistance. In Geneva however Karl Cassem. Assistant general secretory of the federation said monday that the contributions totalled s17.1,000 and that More Aid May be coming even though the strike has ended. We hesitate talking about Vhal we be done for fear the soviet Union would characterize the Effort As an imperialistic capitalistic plot and use it As an excuse to intervene in Poland franc said. Coal strike threatens polish labor pact icon Linurd front Page i inc. Swung upon at Dawn As same 17,000 workers began returning to their jobs. Streetcars and buses packed with Blue unil Brucd factory workers clerks and Lious wives rumbled through the streets of Gdansk a port City of 440,000 which had its first reports monday of the settlement but gave no details on the terms or the political demands. The official czechoslovak communist daily rude Provo published 8 Brief Dis Patch quoting Pap on the resumption of work. Been paralysed by a 17-Day general strike. Western observers noted a statement elsewhere in Poland workers who had published by the official Media in the Sovi to incl the walkout in Solidarity with the Al Union East Germany and Cox Rulo joined Gdansk strikers were also returning to their jobs. They began going Back after strike Leader Lech Walesa and the first Deputy Premier mice Slaw Jan Zielski signed the Jig Cement Kite sunday. The pact unprecedented in the soviet Blue allows workers to establish Independent self governing Trade unions apart from mule controlled organizations. It also pledge the government to work to improve economic conditions for polish workers to rela censorship to allow greater Access by the roman Catholic Church to the Media and to release dissidents who had been assisting the strikers. Underground publishing company among dissidents released sunday was Miroslaw Chiccki who operated an underground dissident publishing company municipal transport workers were also Back on the Job in Lodz Poland s second largest City and in wroclaw. To Lodz a Grimy Industrial cily of 800. 000, residents said life was returning to Normal. Some 20 factories about one fifth of those in the Lodz area had been idled by the strike. Pap also reported that transportation was running normally in Slupsky and Elb lag Ontic Baltic. Poland s communist party daily. Try Buna Ludu called the agreement Wise and  elsewhere in the soviet bloc the official news Media reacted cautiously to the news of the settlement. Moscow radio carried Central Europe Folk Psi Taf Tut or Ftp a tax to Moiha a Cut Tift in Mitre i a Munini Tat us Conuto a Norm i Rabi a win. He to we by a. But a so a Sundh m them Muir la in town i 44 tin. The of Ulm tar of Romr a Holt to was to mime. Twi Pullim h rms. A att t n � for twi Amu. N u London Mirvic o 71 n mkt i Kurtti. R u u Musca re Imus. T Ohp re two ii. T o o pc wow p f Ftp cd it. A a Muir it tour a Tif Choodi. On it in v�4tmf n Nkia in which . Communist party Leader Gus Hall blamed the strikes on weak leadership in Poland. It was believed unlikely that the tightly controlled press in those three countries would have distributed the statement had it not reflected Kremlin thinking. With the strike settled Poland faced the enormous task of rebuilding an Economy already facing desperate problems before the walkouts. In june the . Central intelligence Agency reported Poland owed some 120 billion to Western creditors. More than 90 percent of the Exchange Poland earns from exports must be used to pay its Bills. Fraser and other us. Labor spokesmen speaking on television interview shows it the eve of labor Day also praised presided Carter s new economic policies and pm dieted american workers would Dedde bit re election is More in their interest Hie would be the Choice of Republican nominee Ronald Reagan. Fraser also praised the striking polish workers for their magnificent  Al Cio president Lane Kirkland a. Tar viewed on Abc s meet the Prest called the strike and subsequent Salt Lemsel an inspiring and exciting  for the first time in history a pluralistic institution has been accepted within a communist regime with coat quinces thai could be quite far reaching he said. Kir Larid called the strike an extraordinary example of human  labor Secretary Ray Marshall inter viewed on Abc s issues and answer said the strike confirms the Basic principle that people everywhere have a yearning for Freedom and poles Are no exception to l  asked about Fraser s disclosure of Finan Cial Aid by american and other Western unions Marshall said the american labor movement has a Long tradition of assisting free Tabor movements everywhere. I Thim the principle is a Good  sports in Brief monday s baseball National league Houlon 10. Pri Burotti i american league no Vowk t. Omi ind candidates Start final push for election " iian a a it 9 ii � Mif. U continued from Page i plans that he believed Many dissatisfied democrats were ready to vote for him. With a rear View of the statue of Liberty and the Panorama of new York Harbor in the background Reagan said the lady standing there in the Harbor has never betrayed us once. But this administration has betrayed the working men and women of this  Reagan also attacked Carter new pro Gram. After three years of neglect the misery of unemployment inflation High lairs dwindling earning Power find inability to save after All this american workers have now been discovered by this  he said. He said that Ai president he would pro vide More jobs and lower taxes but he dirt not spell1 out his program for reviving the Economy. The Republican candidate was going on to Detroit another democratic City where he was attending n Barbecue held by a steel worker who has been Laid off several limes this year and who Hai invited a num Ber of unemployed friends. Anderson marched for a mile in t Parade in Calumet City 111., a largely Blue Collar area. He worked one tide of the Street shaking Hinds Willii spectators White his vice presidential running mate former Wisconsin nov. Patrick j. Lucey worked the other. At the end of lie March Anderson Shook hands with Illinois gov James Thompson Republican who said of Tenjum he expected the Illinois Congress Mun Independent presidential Campaign to fade before the n member election. Along with Lucey other vice presiden tial candidates were also out seeking votes Democrat Walter f. Mandate in Pennsyl Vania and Republican George Bush in South Carolina. At Allegheny township in Western Pennsylvania Mondale Tola a labor in 80" picnic that Reagan has an anti labor  he said the Carter administration will not Stop until every Man and woman in Airport computer s failure blamed for new near miss Boston up a multimillion Dol Lar computer system designed to warn air controller of dangerous traffic situations Al the nation s airports frequently fails to work resulting in an increased number 01 near misses sir controllers said sunday. In one instance two planet were to close to each other that they become just one Dot on the radar screen but still the syn Tom failed to sound a warning alarm the controller said. The latest failure of the conflict alarm warning system occurred saturday it bet Lon i Logan inter Illonal Airport when the Lytten s Aurum failed to sound is a cargo Jet registered dear miss with a commuter aircraft Laid Mike of Crown president of the professional air controllers Union local 125. It was the second Linw in three weeks this country who Needa a of has a Job wild decent pay.". Bush mingled with the crowd at the Stock cur races in Darlington . Uni was greeted with cheers moments after visit by the president s son. Chip Wos Nett with Boos. Bush i Day win largely ceremonial by he did Tell reporters he Felt the Carter id ministration should take the blame of the 7.8 percent unemployment ratio that the system at Logan owned did operated by the Federal aviation Admi Fli traction failed to warn of a near and so Furmon said. A cargo Laden Lockheed Electra a la passed within 100 feet vertically and of half mile Hori Malahy of a to mail air new England commuter plane bound for Boito from Hyannis  said an identical Alfun tuija ind near Miu occurred aug. 6 when East Ern and Dola airliners passed within 100 vertical feel of or another. Finn will visit Austria Helsinki up Foreit Murfit Haaro vary Lyned will my in on Kiil rial Austria Stupl 11-13, the foreign ii announced  
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