PRESIDENT LECH WALESA (POLAND) - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 166589
Price: $320.00
PRESIDENT LECH WALESA (POLAND)
The Nobel Peace Prize winner and President of Poland is shown holding a microphone
during a speech in this black and white photograph
Photograph Signed: "L Walesa" in blue ink. 8x10. B/w. Lech Walesa (b. 1934) won the 1983
Nobel Peace Prize for his contribution "to insure the workers right to establish their own
organizations", served as President of Poland from 1990-1995. He had been an electrician
in the Lenin Shipyard in Gdánsk, where he was active in union organizing for several
years. In 1980, he was the co-founder and Chairman of the National Co-Ordinated
Committee of Independent Free Trade Union Solidarnosc (Solidarity). The national union
received unprecedented concessions from the Polish government until the union was
suspended in 1981. During the 1988 labor unrest, Walesa negotiated with the government,
agreeing to persuade workers to return to their jobs in exchange for talks on legalizing
Solidarity. On April 5, 1989, an accord was reached between the government and
opposition factions on a broad range of political and economic reforms, including free
elections. Lightly creased. Otherwise, fine condition.
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