Szczecin Shipyard workers organize nationwide protest committee

On Saturday 160 people from across the country invited by the Szczecin Shipyard's workers met in Szczecin at the First Nationwide Assembly of the Representatives of Endangered Polish Companies. Workers from 100 state-owned and private companies suffering financial troubles and frustrated by their situation, represented enterprises such as the Hipolit Cegielski Poznan factory, the Huta Sendzimira steelworks and the Ozarow cables producer, Fabryka Kabli. The organization is being led by the former president of Szczecin Marian Jurczyk. Some 47 delegates joined the Nationwide Protest Committee, which Jurczyk said is, "against the transformation which is crushing the nation and expropriating it from the goods it produces, social injustice, mass demoralization and humiliation". "Maybe our rage will wake up the government and make them notice the people, because there are still people out here, not only things to sell," said Janusz Gajek, one of the shipyard's workers and a member of the Committee. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 4) A.D.