SOLIDARITY-TO-BE WINS ITS STRIKE, THIRTY-THREE YEARS AGO

SOLIDARNOŚĆ 

IS BEING BORN 

GDANSK, POLAND 

August 30, 1980 

"LET POLAND BE POLAND" 

Solidarity Poster 

Summer 1981 

The story is here 

More Poland, here 

IT ALL STARTED IN THE GDANSK SHIPYARD, THIRTY-THREE YEARS AGO

ONE OF THE 

FIRST FRUITS OF 

THE RISE OF SOLIDARITY 

IN POLAND 

1980 MONUMENT 
TO THE WORKERS 
WHO DIED IN 1970 

Photographed in the summer of 1981 

Construction of this monument was one of the key demands of the Gdansk Lenin Shipyard workers who rose up on August 14, 1980, and gave birth to the movement known as Solidarność (Solidarity).  It was up by December 1980, and said to be built to last, so it could not just be torn down with another turn of the political wheel.  It is still up in 2013.  The shipyard and the shipyard workers have not fared so well -- except, of course, that ultimately they helped "Let Poland Be Poland." 

More of the story here and here. 

RICHARD TRUMKA IS SIXTY-FOUR

RICHARD L. TRUMKA 

b. July 24, 1949 

RICH TRUMKA 

Back when he chaired 

the United Mine Workers 

Published in Business Week 

December 12, 1983, p. 90 

Now and for the last four years, come this September, Trumka is President of the AFL-CIO.   More here.