Solidarność demonstration grows in Katowice

Around 40 miners joined a group of more than 300 Solidarność unionists of Kompania Węglowa, who have been occupying the company's Katowice-based headquarters for the past two days. Representatives from the health sector, as well as steel and railway workers, announced their plans to join the group. Solidarność head Janusz Śniadek is to visit today members of the group, who announced plans to extend the protest unless company representatives enter into negotiations. The unionists demand the extension, until the final stage of the restructuring program at the end of 2006, of the validity of documents regulating miners' rights. (www.rmf.pl) A.K.