European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 12, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Warsaw workers read of government concessions after the wave of strikes. Imply Don t  Jody Lii How do you form Union Ana Giddy is pure Accio eni dui us proximity tightened the pleasure Many of the organizers Ivl Sers feel in putting together a new system Ajer the nose of Power. By John Vinocur new York times Cross Copernicus Street from the Ashe facade of the Headquarters of Poland s official Trade Union is a Small office where its rebel Lious Independent rival grows quite literally by the  factory delegates come climb a flight of stairs and looking out the window at the Center of the government s35-year-old version of workers representation consult with experts on How they can bring Independent unions to places like the Warsaw archaeological museum or the City s largest pump factory or its Heaters. That the old Union building sits across the Street stolid and Grubby i Accident but it has Hele " and adv bit unde the delegates coming from i so factories and office sin the Warsaw area in the first nine Days since the government conceded to the principle of Independent Trade unions received practical information on How to announce the formation of a Union to Plant management How to establish an organizing committee and How to request that Union dues Are checked off from salaries and then How to Deposit the Money in a Union ban account. Some of the Steps seem simplistic but in a country that has lived since world War ii in a tightly controlled system of prescription and regimentation they Are a venture into once forbidden zones. The information is centralized at the club of Catholic intellectuals whose members served in an advisory Capac Ity particularly on Legal matters to the Gdansk shipyard strikers. After the government agreed to give the Gdansk workers their Union the Catholic group began to receive questions from other factories and offices about How it was done. The truth is said Krzysztof Sliwi Sld who runs the counselling Effort we had no idea of what to do when people started to ask us questions. But there were Law yers among us and they approached things from a com Mon sense Point of View. We Don t Tell any group what Todo we just inform them of what the possibilities Are. There s nothing to do with catholicism and no directives to  but the information Center As it is called no offers photocopied series of recommendations contained on three sheets of paper. Employees should establish an organizing committee it begins. Thesis done by the signature of the organizing members of declaration of  then there is a Blank to fill in with the name of , and a reference to the Legal  the new Union article 2 of the International labor convention number 87, article 84 of the Constitution of the Peoples Republic of Poland and the government agreement with the Gdansk strike committee. The Handbill goes on to explain who can join a Union How someone can be excluded if necessary and How its executive functions can Literl Are even appendixes with facsimile letter that can be copied and sent to citizen Plant manager announcing the Union s formation. Another provides a form that goes to the local government informing it that the Union has come into  first Sliwinski said there were Telephone Calls from groups announcing we be decided to go on strike. Howdy you do it they gradually became questions on what to do now that the government has Given in. In the Las Days he Saiu there svs been More rsquf5t� for advice about dealing with managers who make threats when they hear about plans to form one of the new unions. The information group Volunteer counsellors were siting at big wooden tables monday afternoon with factory delegates asking for help stresses that it is non political and that its advice stops with the suggestion that to avoid disrupting the Unity of the new Union the organizational committees should represent All of the professions in a single Enterprise such As physicians and orderlies in a Hospital. Perhaps for fear of giving anyone in few 2.1excuse to say that the new Union movement is Antl soul Allie the adviser also insist Tbs their Model snot Western but something the workers will make themselves. It will be new social contract Sll Winsitt says and we will try to avoid putting a name on  one of the questions that will have to be debated within the Union movement is How much of a social service role the new organization will try to play. People like Tadusz Mazowiecki an Independent Catholic Edi Tor and an adviser to the Gdansk strike committee have said that the new unions will have to consider How deeply they want to get involved with an infrastructure of Hospi tals rest Homes vacation lodges and sports groups like the ones the old official unions have maintained. The new unions Hope would be to have enterprises play this role instead of the  in Poland really Don t want better vacations anyway Mazowiecki said. They Are much More inter ested in the new lot the unions Are  but one of the unions biggest problems acknowledged at the information Center is getting a part of the loan funds created from workers payments to the official unions and held in a rough equivalent of american credit  new unions feel that workers who leave the official organization to join them should have a right to Transfer their contributions to funds to be managed by tiie inde Pendents. The Issue so far with the new unions still at what Sliwinski a biologist refers to As an embryonic phase must be resolved to insure the Success of the  Sliwinski nor Mazowiecki seems very much concerned about an editorial last week in Tribuna Luda the communist party newspaper which some non poles took As a first sign the government might be trying to figure out ways to co opt or at least water Down the new unions. The editorial suggested that communists should be members of the Union and that the Independent unions themselves should cooperate rather than compete with the official Trade unions. Tow communists a members really Don t con Cern anyone Sliwinski said a Long As they Agre with the rules. A simple party member Means Noth ing. A member of the party apparatus b something else and i doubt Many of the new onions could accept  As for cooperation or Competition Mazowiecki said there was no reason that the new unions could not Coop crate with the old ones in areas where they have common interests and positions. Plant Hygiene he said or safety for example. They re not All that hard to see Eye to Eye  12, 1980 the stars and stripes Page 15