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Strike ban set in Poland |

‘Anarchy is spreading’

WARSAW, Poland (UPI)—
Poland’s Communist Party is
seeking sweeping emergency
powers to ban strikes, all
non-religious gatherings and
free travel in a bid to halt
spreading labor unrest, the

state news agency said
Monday.

The official Interpress
news agency said the

emergency powers were
contained in a draft bill the
Communist Party plans to
submit to parliament for

approval at its next session
late this week or early next
week.

Details of the Communist
Party bill emerged two days
after Prime Minister
Wojciech Jaruzelski called
on Poland’s parliament to
ban all strikes, warning that
the economy’s disintegration
could lead to “a state of
war.” ;

“Anarchy is spreading,”
the Communist party
newspaper Trybuna Ludu
said Monday in a report

looks at economy

VANCOUVER (UPC)—The
New Democratic Party’s
economic task force began
cross-country hearings
Monday, taking submissions
in Vancouver from groups
and individuals about the
economy and the recent
federal budget.

Nelson Riis, NDP MP for
Kamloops-Shuswap and co-
chairman of the task force
with finance critic Bob Rae,
said the -economy was in
“serious transition” and the
task force would seek
“economic development that
makes sense.” .

He said the hope of the
task force, which alsc in-
cludes MPs Ian Waddell
(Vancouver Kingsway), Rod
Murphy (Churchill) and
Margaret Mitchell (Van-
couver East), would be to
arrive at possible solutions to
some of the social problems
spawned by the current
economic hardships. ;

The task force wds an-

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nounced last week in Ottawa
by federal MDP leader Ed
Broadbent and Riis, who
said the purpose of the
hearings would be to give
Canadians a chance to speak
out about the government's

economic policies.
The hearings were
originally intended to

concentrate on the economy
as a whole, but Riis said the
strong reaction by Canadians
to the budget changed the
focus of the hearings.

A public report based on
the findings of the task force
would be presented to the
government by mid-January.

Further hearings were
scheduled in Edmonton,
Regina, Winnipeg, Thunder
Bay, Toronto, Montreal,
Fredericton, Halifax and St.
John’s.

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backing the government's
call-for the strike ban.

In Warsaw, truckloads of
police surrounded a
firefighter’s academy where
300 cadets have staged a sit-
in since Wednesday
demanding the school be
disassociated from the
military.

More than 200,000
students, farmers and oil
workers stayed on strike
across Poland in defiance of
the government's threat to

take emergency action.
Solidarity’s national
presidium held an

emergency meeting to
discuss the national situation
and scheduled a meeting
Thursday of all regional
union branch leaders ahead
of a full national commission
session next week.

The government's move to

Sun Mon

outlaw strikes would deal a
severe blow to the union-
government agreements that
ended the 1980 summer
strikes in Odansk.

Interpress said the bill
proposed by the Communist
Party would provide for “the
possibility of temporary
suspension of the right to
strike, a ban on other than
religious gatherings,
limitation of the freedom of
movement of persons and
goods in domestic and in-
ternational traffic, possible
transferring of certain
competences of civilian
courts to military ones.”

’ The news agency added,
however, that “observers
feel that the authorities
would invoke such special
powerts only in the event of
the (new) bili on trade
unions not being respected.”

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