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Friday Morning, August 22,1980 OSaldrstmi fiailu 11-A Fear of spreading strikes sparks wave of panic buying in Warsaw WARSAW, Poland (UPI) If Reports thai Poland's spreading strikes might ''sweep to this capital city touched off a wave of panic buying Thursday, the eighth ip day of labor turmoil, and authorities arrested more il dissident leaders. The government switched tactics in the Baltic port of 'Gdansk, sue of the strikes that triggered the nationwide unrest, removing one deputy premier and bringing in another as chief negotiator in an attempt to get settlement talks started. Official news media reported late Thursday that workers at several of the than 300 striking factories in the Gdansk region had returned to work following talks with the new government team. There was no immediate comment from the joint strike committee, which had said none of the more than ,120,000 workers it represented would return to itheir jobs until all their demands were satisfied. In the capital, bread, gutter, cheese, milk and along with most other basic foods, disappeared from store shelves in panic buying by early afternoon.

Hundreds of cars lined up at gasoline stations, waiting for hours for fuel. Government officials confirmed privately that they had been warned to expect widespread strikes in Warsaw on Friday, probably lasting for two days. Other reports suggested the capital would face only a two-hour shutdown. Police in the capital rounded up at least five more dissidents, bringing to 19 the total of activists arrested in less than 24 hours. In Washington, the State Department issued its first substantive statement on the situation in Poland, noting "with concern" the arrest of political dissidents, members of the Committee for Social Self-Defense, Poland's best-known dissident group.

"We have seen the reports about the arrests of Polish dissidents. We have noted them with concern and we hope the dissidents would be released soon," said spokesman David Passage. But Passage again declined to comment on the general situation in Poland. Communist Party sources reported that they expected a plenary session of the Central Committee to take place before the end of the week. They said they believed some changes in the leadership of the country might occur at that meeting.

Meetings already were in progress at the Central Committee Thursday, but the full group was not in session. Politburo member Jerzy Lukasiewicz was discussing "the social- economic situation in the country with party workers from throughout Poland, the official PAP news agency reported. A prominent Communist commentator warned that Poland faces "a period of instability, the consequences of which could be dangerous for all of us," unless the strikes are settled within a few days. Mieczyslaw Rakowski, writing in Friday's Polityka, the Communist Party journal, said the outcome of Poland's labor troubles could have serious consequences for the Western powers as well as the socialist bloc. In Gdansk, government officials announced First Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski had replaced Deputy Premier Tadeusz Pyka as director of the special government commission formed to examine the demands of the strikers.

Pyka, whose efforts to divide the strikers and I Strikers receive Western support United Press International Workers' movements in the West expressed solidarity Thursday with Polish strikers staging one of the largest challenges ever to a Communist government and called on Poland to grant the strikers' demand for free trade labor unions. "The free exercise of trade union rights for the exclusive protection of workers is essential in modern societies and should be scrupulously assured irrespective of political regimes concerned," said Francis Blanchard of France. He is the head of the International Labor -Organization, one of the United Nations' largest and most important agencies. In the United States, the executive board of the AFL- CIO at its meeting in Chicago passed a resolution Wednesday expressing support for the Polish strikers, reported numbering 120,000. International Longshoremen's union President Thomas Gleason, backed by the AFL-CIO, said Thursday a boycott of goods to and from Poland in support of striking workers will be in effect within days at most U.S.

ports. Machinists and Aerospace Workers union President William Winpisinger also prepared to expand the boycott to include air carriers to and from Poland. The private Swiss Helsinki Agreement Watchdog Committee called on Blanchard to head a delegation to Poland to meet with the strikers who are demanding free trade unions to replace the official state-controlled Polish unions. In Geneva, Blanchard said the ILO sent a delegation to Poland in May to discuss the government's compliance with ILO conventions on workers' rights and authorities then "indicated that they were taking action to modify (labor) legislation." Blanchard said he is placing his offices and those of the ILO "at the disposal of the authorities concerning the framing of legislation assuring free exercise of trade union rights." In Corfu, Greece, socialist leaders from Spain, Italy, Portugal, France and negotiate with them separately during the past three days had been a failure, was "transferred to other duties," the govern- ment announced. Jagielski appeared on the state radio and a local television to announce the addition of four deputy Cabinet members to his negotiating team and said he hoped talks with the strikers could begin quickly.

Jagielski told workers he wanted to conduct negotiations with separate committees from each factory but he held out the hope of subsequent talks with the full joint committee. Reptiles eat little in relation to their body weight. Greece expressed solidarity with strkiking Polish workers. Another umbrella labor group also headquartered in Geneva, the International Federation of Chemical Energy and General Workers Unions known as the ICEF, also came out in support of the strikers. Charles Levinson, ICEF general secretary, said Polish workers are conducting a "courageous and inspiring struggle for better conditions of life and work." "Without real unions and the right to strike, Polish workers are being used as cheap labor for the joint profit of the regime and Western multinationals," Levinson said.

The federation, which represents 6.5 million workers in 60 noncommunist countries, asked for permission to send a delegation of Western labor union officials to Poland. In Stockholm, a group of Polish immigrants representing Poland's largest dissident group, the Committee for Social Self- Defense known as KOR, called upon Western nations to use their influence to convince Polish and Soviet of the legitimate demands of Poland's striking workers. In Madrid, Spain's Socialist-led General Union of Workers protested the arrest in Poland of Jacek Kuron and 13 other dissidents. The Socialist party said in a statement the strike movement in Poland had "an enormous and transcendent importance, not only for Communist countries" but also for the rest of the world, because it could affect "the equilibrium of East-West relations. Gleason said some union members already have started to stop deliveries of Polish cargo unloaded from ships, but said he wanted the boycott to begin at one time in all ports.

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