PRESIDENT LECH WALESA (POLAND) - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 344958
Price: $340.00
PRESIDENT LECH WALESA
The Nobel Peace Prize winner and President of Poland is shown looking down in this
black and white photograph
Photograph Signed: "Lech Walesa" in blue felt tip. 8½x11. B/w. Lech Walesa (b. 1943) 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. Corners slightly rounded. Lightly crease. Otherwise, fine condition.
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