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30 August (Saturday)

  • The Szczecin MKS signs an agreement with government representatives, It is beneficial in the part concerning social matters, and imprecise and terse regarding political demands.
  • The first two points of the Gdańsk agreement are initialled.
  • The PUWP CC plenary meeting approves the Szczecin agreement and decides to finally sign the Gdańsk agreement.


From the Gdańsk MKS talks with the Government Commission:


Mieczysław Jagielski:

Perhaps there were those who got impatient by the long duration of these negotiations. The man who was on our coach and brought us here today told me: “You visit us too seldom, Mr Prime Minister.” I think that this is not about the frequency of visits but about solving matters in a concrete manner and getting them forward. […]

At today’s CC plenary meeting, our party wants to clearly define a principled position on matters that we are discussing here today. [...] Such recognition will secure the utmost guarantee of a decisive political will to implement the solutions agreed. [...]

Would it not be advisable that we jointly draft an appropriate communiqué that would give to understand that we have actually agreed and that - in this situation - we hold that... what we regard as the most important thing: we finish the strike and resume work. We have prepared a communiqué along these lines. I think that our representatives could remain here to redraft it. I would come back again in the evening. [...] As soon as possible, because people want to rest, after all it is Saturday



Lech Wałęsa:

Mr Prime Minister, actually the most important points do not require much work. The rest can be done fairly quickly. Therefore I suggest: we have waited so long, we have Saturday, we have Sunday, so we will go through everything again [...]. If everything goes well, we really want to go to work on Monday, but we really must have everything in black on white.



Mieczysław Jagielski:

You will have it in black on white.





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Lech Wałęsa, triumphantly carried shoulder-high after the signing of the first point of the agreement (photo: S. Składanowski/Karta).


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„Solidarity” poster.


 
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