POLAND (AS OF 1500, 18 DECEMBER 1970)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-559-30-6-2
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: July 6, 2010
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: December 18, 1970
• Content Type: REPORT

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POLAND (as of 1500, 18 December 1970)
1. Strikes are still in progress in the three
Northern cities of Gdansk, Gdynia and Sopot. These
are partial strikes ranging from walkouts of one-third
of the work force of some enterprises to total walkouts
in some enterprises. (Western press).]
and it is pre-
sumed that naval patrols are still also in progress.
2. In Szczecin there were' disturbances this
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(Western press). The Polish authorities have cancelled
all school classes and urged parents to keep their children
off the streets. The authorities have also cancelled
the afternoon work shifts in the city's factories on the
grounds that the curfew at 1800 hours would not give the
workers time enough to get home after close of work at
,1700 hours. (Polish press).
flights to and from the Silesian cities of Katowice and
In addition, all commercial
.Wroclaw.have been cancelled. (Western Press).
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Disturbances have been reported in various
other cities
(e.g., Lodz, Bydgoszcz, Poznan and Slupsk).
In Warsaw some partial walkouts have been reported.
Plants affected include the Zieran Works where the 1956
Polish riots in Warsaw began. The striking workers are
demanding wage increases, as are workers who are striking
elsewhere in Poland. (Press)
5. The Polish regime remains firm in holding to
the wage and price changes that touched off the disturb-
ances. Premier Cyrankiewicz, ip a nation-wide radio
address yesterday,mmde a moderate statement appealing
to the nationalist common sense to the people but also
clearly indicating that the Government would not back
down from its position on wages and prices.
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that all precautions had been taken and everything was
however, Rostock reported to Berlin at 1030Z, 18 December
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it
will-be recalled that the intervention in Czechoslovakia
in 1968 was on the grounds that the situation there was
"counterrevolutionary." The Bulgarian Finance Minister
on 15 December announced that there would be no price
increases in Bulgaria.
7. Word has just arrived that the Newsweek bureau
in Vienna has monitored a broadcast which said that there
was rioting in Rostock, East Germany. On the SED network,.
quiet. (Comint).
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