PRESIDENT LECH WALESA (POLAND) - TYPED NOTE SIGNED 12/25/1984 - HFSID 201372
Price: $260.00
LECH WALESA
TNS: "L Walesa", 5½x4. Gdánsk, 1984 December 25. Two lines
(possibly a holiday greeting) in Polish above signature. Lech Walesa (born in
1943), the winner of 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, Walesa 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 soiled. Fine condition.
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