The World - News from Nov. 8, 1988

Polish workers rallied in two cities, a Solidarity spokesman said, and the official press criticized union leader Lech Walesa for threatening strikes to save the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk. Solidarity-sponsored rallies were held at a tractor factory in Warsaw and at a coal mine to protest the planned Dec. 1 shipyard closing, union spokesman Wojciech Maziarski said. The Communist Party newspaper Trybuna Luda said: “In the past, it was alleged that when the authorities lacked arguments, they resorted to repressions. Today, when Lech Walesa lacks arguments, he loads the strike cannon.”