Szczecin based Nationwide Protest Committee has no future say sociologists

Coal miners have declared that they want to join the Nationwide Protest Committee (OKP) formed over the weekend in Szczecin, which gathers together employees in troubled enterprises. The members of the government backed Tripartite Commission are worried about the creation of this organization. "The problems of the shipyard industry should be analyzed during the Commission's meetings and not on the street," said one Tripartite member. Labor Minister Jerzy Hausner said that the Committee would not be invited for talks with the Tripartite Commission. "This body looks for solutions, not ways to create demonstrations," said Hausner. "So far all we have heard are empty promises," Janusz Gajek from OKP told Zycie daily. Sociologists believe that the Committee will fail to gather wide social support will not pose a major threat to public order. (Zycie, p. 6; Gazeta Wyborcza, pp. 1, 4) A.D.