The World - News from April 26, 1988
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The first strike by an official Polish labor union halted public transportation in the industrial city of Bydgoszcz for more than 12 hours before authorities granted the workers a 63% pay raise. The strike by transport workers in the city and in the nearby town of Inowroclaw was the first to cause major disruption in a Polish city since the Communist government imposed martial law in December, 1981, and suspended the unsanctioned Solidarity union. The stoppage was led by bus driver Krzysztof Wojt, a Communist Party member and chairman of the local branch of Poland’s official transport workers union, who described it as a protest rather than a strike.
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