The World - News from Sept. 1, 1986
Thousands of Solidarity supporters attended Masses throughout Poland in low-key observances of the sixth anniversary of the founding of the Soviet Bloc’s first independent trade union. In the Baltic port of Gdansk, Solidarity’s birthplace, thousands avoided confrontations with truckloads of riot police as they gathered with Lech Walesa for a Mass at St. Brygida’s Roman Catholic Church. Before the Mass, Walesa, a Solidarity co-founder and winner of the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize, laid flowers at a monument to workers outside the Lenin Shipyard.
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