Cimoszewicz blasts Solidarity

He accused the Solidarity union of creating nationwide chaos on Wednesday by illegal protests in front of three ministries in Warsaw in the defense of the Gdansk Shipyard. "Don't try to build a second Albania in Poland," Cimoszewicz warned Solidarity which launched nationwide protests this week against the government led by Cimoszewicz's ex-communists. The PM also presented deputies with his rescue plan for the bankrupt shipyard that would involve setting up a new subsidiary of Szczecin Shipyard that would use Gdansk shipyard's assets to build five vessels for the nation's merchant shipping company Polska Zegluga Morska. While answering the PM's expose, Solidarity leader Marian Krzeklewski said at the National Committee meeting that the best form of general strike in protest of Poland's ruling coalition would be defeating the coalition in elections later this year. The union also accused the government of being motivated by political spite in letting the yard go under. "We do not want to be insulted for trying to exercise our rights," said Krzaklewski. "We want to negotiate in peace." (Reuters, Zycie, page 2)