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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 3, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday May 3,1988 polish shipyard workers go on strike Warsaw. Poland a workers went an strike monday at the Lenin ship Yard m Gdansk Birthplace of the Solidarity Independent Trade movement government and opposition spokesmen said. Government spokesman Zhigniew a Gusly Nowicki said lie did nil know to Many shipyard workers were taking part in the strike to followed an Appeal by Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa on sunday for a Day of action to support striking steelworkers in Southern Poland. A Banner Al the shipyard Gate said Sil in strike said and Gwiazda a local Solidarity Leader in Cid Amk speak ing by Telephone. He said the strike began Between 1 30 . And 2 30 . The strike was proclaimed in All departments of the shipyard and a least 3,000 people were participating Accord ing to Walesa the i a it incl peace prize laureate who is employed As an electrician at the Plant. Walesa s remarks were reported by Jacck Kuron a senior Solidarity adviser in Warsaw. Al to monday workers Al an electronics Factor in Southwest Poland ended a one Day work stoppage after they obtained a Promise of a pay increase of is 5 a month and possible further increases later in inc year opposition spokesmen said. The work stoppage at the do Mcl electronics Plant in wroclaw involved about half of the Plant s 3,500 workers said opposition and government spokesmen. At a rally held at i ., workers were to a that the management promised the raise after two hours negotiations said Jozcfa Pinion a wroclaw Solidarity Leader Al the Plant. The workers then decided to return to work tuesday he said. In Krakow authorities locked the a woman hold up � crass u policemen try to break up n Warsaw demonstration. Gales to the medieval magic ionian University after students scheduled a rally there m support of striking steelworkers. Despite heavy police presence Downs of students gathered briefly at two locations in the old cily of Krakow with banners and leaflets said Wladyslaw Surdy a spokesman for the strike police detained 10 people he said. On sunday thousands of people heeded Solidarity s Call for a National Day of protest and scores of demonstrators were arrested in clashes with police in at least 19 cities. Government spokesman Jurvy Urban said 90 people were detained during the May Day protests. Solidarity spokesman Zbigniew Romaszewski said authorities detained at least 200 people. There were scattered reports of injuries but figures were not available. Meanwhile  striking for a seventh Day near Krakow in Southern Poland awaited an answer to a request for negotiations with the Deputy prime minister in charge of the Economy. A Secretary to Deputy prime minister Zdzislaw Sadowski said Poland s eco nomic and planning chief had not received a letter sent sunday by striking steelworkers. The letter invited Sadowski to negotiate with them at the Lenin steel works in Nowa  strike committee at in Plant says it represents 16.000 of the Plant s 32,000 employees and is demanding recognition of their Union right and a 50 percent raise on the average salary of ids a month. Management said that fewer than 1,000 strikers were at the Nowa Aluta Plant sunday. In polish strikes workers come to the Plant during their scheduled shifts but do in work. Urban said Al least 12,000 people look part in illegal demonstrations sunday. Re ports Frum witnesses and opposition spokesmen Pul inc number at More than 30,000.the demonstrations mowed a week of strikes and the worst labor unrest in Poland since the communist government suspended Solidarity in december 1981. 11 later outlawed the Irac federation. Solidarity had called for the demonstrations to protest a Lack of Union free Dom and the government s austerity policy Hal has caused prices to Rise by 42 percent recently Romas Owski. The Solidarity spokes Man who kept track of arrests complained of exceptional brutality by police in wroclaw. He said 84 demons raptors were detained there and claimed Hal even passive protesters were repeatedly beaten. In Gdansk an sunday. Walesa told 6,000 supporters they must support strik ers at the steel Mill "1 demand from you Solidarity with Nowa Huta tomorrow in your shipyards in your ports and in your  world today Thailand Cabinet resigns in copyright Bill dispute it Angkok Thailand a prime min ister prom tins Vanonda has dissolved his cab inet and the parliament and called new elections in a dispute Over legislation to protect . Copy rights. The official radio Thailand said general elections would he held july 24. Earlier. 16 Cabinet ministers belonging to inc main party in prom s coalition government submitted their resignations after failing to Stop party dissidents from voting against the govern ment backed Hill 10 protect american copy Riglis. The Democrat party ministers represent ing Boul a third of inc Cabinet resigned because they could nol control the party dissidents said col. Sanan Fachorn phrasal. The party s Secretary general. Senior intelligence official defects to South Korea Seoul South Korea i a a senior Nonh korean intelligence official sought political Asylum Here sunday in what local reports called the highest ranking defection to Llie South since the end of the korean War. The foreign ministry said Kim Jung min 45, arrived in Seoul sunday after his defection in a South korean embassy in Europe. The ministry would not say exactly where or when he selected. Kim who had been carrying a North korean diplomatic passport sought political Asylum while he was to Aselino ill a certain euro Pean country on official business it said. Kim had been a senior official in North Korea s ministry of Public Security a powerful intelligence organization inc ministry said with out elaborating. Far right Sis in France celebrate be pen s Strong showing of pos Cox news sen ice Paris chanting France for the French and foreigners gel out 50,000 followers of France s sex Remc right Wing National front marched triumphantly through Paris on sunday in Celebration of their sym Bolic Patron Joan of arc and i hair new political strength. They also came to hear their Leader Jean Marie be 1 in. Tell them How to vote in the May s presidential Runoff. He gave no Clear instructions except to de scribe Ilie Choice As Between the  conservative Premier Jacques Chirac and the worst socialist president Francois Mitterrand.  pen s loyalists who had waited three hours in a cold rain to see him. Stamped and applauded As he shouted thai he is neither a racist nor in extremist. Fills punching the air they should in unison la France. Be pen. Liberty in the first round of presidential elections last week be pen shocked the political establishment by winning 14.7 percent of the National vote draining working class and Rural support from Chirac s no gaullist party and i he fading French communist party. In ten s Strong showing splintered inc right and has prompted a debate in France Over whether he rep resents a rising Neo fascism or is simply a Magnet for the traditional protest vote. People say that my Vole was u Vole of Sanction of the aggrieved and of inc excluded la pen said. It was a Vole of the Flower of France. It was not the fringe but the Avant Garde of the French people the crowd was a mis of Bourgeois families bused in from the provinces and Young men with shaved Wrilds and combat boots. Monarchists hoping to do away with the French Republic were out in Force As were fins of marshal Phillipe i Clain. The head of the pro a i French government during world War 11. One National front group was Selling buttons that criticised a prominent Black activist in France. Others sold Catholic fundamentalist tracts old foreign legion recruiting posters and recordings of songs of the colonial forces 1900-1958." a contingent from the town of Marignani. 18 Miles from Marseille marched under a Banner that boasted of giving be pen 31.fi Pewee no of its Vole his Best National score. Extreme right Lender Jeon in ref. I i m second from right at a rally sunday in Paris. France is in danger because All the jobs arc going to foreigners said Marignani schoolteacher Raymond Saliba. If nol for the immigrants he added echoing la pen. All the French would have jobs. We Ore nol fascists Sliba Aid. We arc nol cult crisis. It s very important that you say it. We Are simply frenchmen who love our country the Joan of Are Parade a Lgth Century. Tradition. Was revived by la pen 10 years ago when his National front was virtually unknown lie has adopted inc Saint As his Symbol of National purity in the face of foreign influence. Religion is a Strong in Csc of his particularly in his attacks on moslem and his warnings tial Christian Europe is in danger  
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