The World - News from April 29, 1988

A member of the Polish Politburo went to a huge steel plant at Nowa Huta in southern Poland, where half the workers are on strike, but there was no sign of an end to Poland’s worst labor trouble since the active Solidarity union days of 1980-81. Politburo member Alfred Miodowicz’s visit coincided with an official warning to strikers that their work stoppage is illegal. Police in Stalowa Wola, in the same area, where another strike is planned today, detained Bronislaw Geremek, an adviser to Solidarity founder Lech Walesa, Solidarity spokesman Janusz Onyszkiewicz, and Warsaw’s Solidarity leader, Zbigniew Bujak. Geremek was released but said Onyszkiewicz and Bujak remain in custody.