Gdynia Shipyard management hints at reinstatement of dismissed strikers

The management of the Gdynia Shipyard has indicated that it may consider reinstating workers who were dismissed for taking part in the current strike. Following a meeting yesterday between the management and the strike committee, Gdynia Shipyard president Janusz Szlanta said, "We are analyzing the situation and after the strike these people may return to work." However, shipyard spokesman Miroslaw Piotrowski said the dismissal of the three leaders of the Stoczniowiec labor union would be treated as a separate case. The strikers were yesterday visited by Samoobrona leader Andrzej Lepper, who said he had come as a mediator. The unions, however, seemed unimpressed. "He came to show himself, since there are so many journalists in the shipyard," commented Jan Guminski of the All Poland Alliance of Trade Unions (OPZZ). (Rzeczpospolita, p. A3; Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 8) A.Z.