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To. nh�Ge-l6 <br />Human rights are are important part o-f soci <br />Today. .Not <br />rybody ever ywr e L S a.owed of ri g hts <br />ri ans are given. 'Where are marry people all over t <br />taor 1 <br />that fight for what they think is right; thie a er <br />p about one <br />of those indi id ais. <br />In 19810 Polish labor leader Lech Wale a ,dead the <br />wor at <br />a shipyard in Gdansk to a very effective seventeen day walko <br />Communist Polish leaders were b eing very unfair 4 r <br />-o �aor <br />workers all over the country. These workers were e forced to work <br />six to seven days a week, long hours, and were u <br />Lech W aIF-�ea rallied his fellow workmen to stand p to 1-e <br />veiled threat8 and the pressure o <br />During the strike, the Polish la ore-rs, led b <br />lea.* faced <br />the communist dominated labor organ ±z tion w i t h a list of <br />approximately twenty demands. These included <br />wage <br />increases- independe t union organs at.�on the right g to stile; they <br />MOMM reiease of ail arrested dJ si eats; and mars more <br />The walkout ended when the government formal <br />r ecogni z ed a <br />'L.ndependant labor movement, acknowledged t heir r j rr <br />ght _o trine, <br />and other concession., Walesa there formed the federated union <br />oioia.ly ca.led oldarity, <br />idar ty is continui ng to f_i jjt the communist ov <br />g e r m e n <br />for more wage increases and other rights denied to Lech <br />alesa <br />and his loilowers. <br />