The World - News from Aug. 28, 1985

Solidarity leader Lech Walesa said that Poles will never “give up freedom for slavery,” and he urged supporters of the banned union to turn from mass protests to rebuilding the labor movement at the local level. Walesa’s comments marked the fifth anniversary Aug. 31 of the agreements with the government that created the Soviet Bloc’s first independent trade union. The union later was outlawed. “Five years ago we took a huge gulp of democracy,” Walesa said. “I would like to remind those in power that the authorities pass away but the nation remains.”