Robotnicy 1971 - Nic o nas bez nas (1971) - full transcript
MORNING
Warsaw speaking, Program One.
It's six o'clock and we are
broadcasting the morning review.
Kielce was visited yesterday
by the First Secretary
of the Central Committee of the Polish
United Workers' Party, Edward Gierek.
INDUSTRY-PROGRESS-SOCIALISM
He toured several leading
industrial facilities
and met with workers,
or in this case miners.
SOCIALISM - GUARANTEES SAFETY AND
HARMONIOUS PEACE IN PEOPLE'S POLAND
Will the mission of working class unity…
Every day the number of factories fall…
WORKERS' COURT INCREASED DISCIPLINE
AND THRIFT IN EVERY WORKPLACE
GLORY TO WORKING PEOPLE
LONG LIVE THE POLISH PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC
WORKERS 1971:
NOTHING ABOUT US
WITHOUT US
DISTRIBUTION OF LABOR
Pillar A1! Młodzik!
- Niemiec!
- Present.
- Wójcik!
- Present.
- Kukla!
- Present.
- Górnik!
- Present.
Pillar C1.
- Herst!
- Present.
- Gąsior!
- Present.
- Łebek!
- Present.
- Jurownik!
- Present.
- And Makowski!
- Present.
- Pillar C1a. Apriok!
- Absent.
- Tatarczyk!
- Present.
- Kazimierczak!
- Present.
- Zela!
- Present.
Demidowicz!
TOOLS
16, your name?
Gaźbowski, right?
Romanowski...
He hasn't prepared it, you know.
He hasn't prepared it yet.
But what kind of work is it?
Grip? There is no full set.
No, it isn’t set.
Lenda and Cyra
haven't prepared it for him.
They have cards, but they wander around
and don't think about preparing it.
-You took that much already.
But now I'll stand and wait for work.
You won't stand here, I'll just
heap it on and come back!
- How long then?
- About one hour for him...
- I'll be waiting...
- What do you have?
- This ones for radiators.
- No, no radiators.
Mr Kosumek!
Communism sharpens your teeth,
it will calm down finally and...
But what's there to say...
PUBLIC MEETING
-Let's say it like it is.
The rule is: you talk too much - they
throw you out. And that's what happened.
That's what happened!
- Our deputy.
- Manager.
Sure it happened,
he came to...
- The Chairman come from the committee.
- Mr Orłowski?
Yes. He called me
here and talked to me.
I told him the truth,
that we work hard, and we earn little.
That we're on a shoestring,
that we're soaking with sweat...
for high quotas and low wages.
They told us, sure.
So I told them how things are:
that we don't have the coupons
we don't know the prices,
we don't know how much we earn,
we don't really know what we work for.
And the next day after that
they called me upstairs and gave
me a transfer card.
But why are you afraid
to talk about these things?
People are afraid because
they're kicked out the door after that.
I would’ve been out the door myself
if my doctor hadn't saved me.
-I'm telling you that's over.
No one's kicked out for that.
If the doctor hadn't given me the note
that I can't be transferred...
There are things that if you
don't like it, the gate is wide open.
And you have to go, don't you?
That's why everyone is scared.
Please, feel very free to...
Please talk and behave the way you
always do in any congress.
How large the raise is going to be
is a matter, isn't it? -Yes.
- Well, within five years, no.
- But how? When it comes to raises,
how are you going to get the raise
that you are talking about now.
By the guidelines... in
the guidelines for the Sixth Congress,
it is assumed to be 17-18%
through technical progress.
By upgrading personnel grades.
How? The machine can't put out more,
it's already at 1500 watts!
How could it, how could it do more?
Accidents already happen.
Unless we are going
to do two shifts.
Superiors...
After working here so many years,
A man is going to die with
this group. I'll sit!
-But gentlemen, with good machines.
This is automated work for you.
Yes, it is.
But what will be the quota?
How does he choose it?
Well spoken!
The quota will be the same,
but the salary per
personnel grade will be higher.
It's not about the grade
if a worker can only go up by group.
After a few years can they apply
for group VI? Group X let's say?
But they're only on hourly pay when
groups are entitled to higher day rates!
But the reports…
If the losses are still bad,
it is our duty to
fix and regulate them.
But if it's bad, then well...
I would like to raise one more issue.
Our quotas are too high.
Each little while he comes by
and he raises our quotas.
Now it turns out that I work a
whole 8 hours for 36 zlotys.
Tell me, how can one live
with such a salary
and how can one keep a house with that?
We can hold a grudge
against the manager,
but he is just as innocent as we are.
The actuary comes, each time
he notices anything new.
Boom - he gives us a new quota.
He gives a high quota, we work hard,
faster, and eventually
there are rejects,
because it's not quality that
matters, but quantity!
So we ruin materials,
because we’re running
it faster, faster, faster, faster...
One group rushes another.
It happens that a lot of money is made,
but a good part of it
is thrown down the drain.
I'll explain everything,
Mrs. Biegucka.
What you are saying...
What you are saying,
is only partly true.
Come on, every woman here will confirm!
When you were speaking, I didn't
interrupt you, Mrs. Biegucka.
And no one has told you
that you can't earn more.
And please tell me if
there are accidents like
that when a worker earns
2500 or 3000 zlotys,
someone cuts his pay.
Please tell me.
Were they? Are they?
- There were those cases!
- Well, when were they?
Before the December Events.
Well, that was then
now is a new period, no?
Sure, but one can't tell
how things will be in it.
No. So far it hasn’t been that way,
and it doesn't look like it'll be
that if he earns 3000 zlotys...
- Cause if you earned 2000, 2800 or 3200,
then he came and halved it.
- Yes, you're right that that happened.
There was chimney regulation,
now chimneys don't exist.
Unless you were
punished for not working!
It is just a matter of
looking after our components.
When they come right from transport,
they look like this:
Clean legs, elegant,
no corrosion on them at all.
We unload them here.
They lie without any cover,
without anything.
Outside, it's raining, snowing,
winter or not winter.
Then those legs look like this:
How much does is take to put them
to work now? Twice as much. At least!
But the price is,
unfortunately, the same.
No one can do a thing about it then.
And this is not about much, it is
not about any damn financial outlays.
It's just about covering
it with something,
so it won't rain and snow on them.
Then it won't be as rusty
as it is now.
And twice the work doesn't need to
be done when the price is the same.
And tons of acid goes on it. Acid is
wasted, but labor is paid the same.
How much in savings would that be!
HANDS
HEADS
-Here is a finished device again.
Molding could be brought to here..
- It's a bit heavy...
- What?
- Too heavy.
- Sure it's heavy, but this...
This one can be rolled up immediately.
- Look, see... wait.
It's stuck now.
It's jammed, let's see.
What happened here? I forgot the driver.
-No, no. Not from this side.
You can pull it away from there.
Jesus!
- It's coming.
- Slowly.
It got dirty here.
A bit.
Some scruff got inside.
So now. It would lighten
your load a lot, wouldn't it?
Yeah, it's already
running on those routes.
Our route is quite overloaded here.
You can't unscrew this screw.
Unscrew the screw while it stays there.
- So there we go...
- We had pliers like these ones.
And they wasted my day
just knocking me out.
Because there is no possibility, unless
here it is: the pump may be damaged.
It may not work.
- The pump could be damaged.
And now remove it. You may be
able to improve this job yourself.
Make it easier and faster.
- Right away.
Twelve minutes for
the one piece. And...
10 pieces go to the engine.
- 10 pieces.
10 pieces per engine, that is,
we would have an hour,
One, 10 pieces,
120 minutes or 2 hours.
Yes.
-2 hours would be down.
For an engine.
It pays off this way.
DISTRICT
INNOVATIVE LEATHER INDUSTRY PLANTS
CULTURAL CENTER
Already, Black?
Already?
Now there will be a song:
In the mountains and valleys,
You all know about this,
That our factory,
Is already famous
And we enlist!
- You give up today.
- To sit down a bit.
- So, start, now!
In the mountains and valleys,
Ey, in the mountains and valleys
You all know about this
WE WELCOME THE VI PZPR CONGRESS
Ey, that our factory
is already famous.
Ey, that our factory
is already famous
Though we make shoes,
we walk in moccasins,
Tatras Mountains above all,
Our hearts are with highlanders.
Ey, though we make shoes
We walk in moccasins…
FACTORY COMMITTEE
-Zenek, Zenek!
I have a letter for him,
in the red briefcase.
A letter concerning that case?
That guard, who...
And he asked the chairman not to...
- Well, okay.
- But I would like to have it...
In such a case I must have it
in black and white.
Otherwise people would get on me.
They would say that we give
things out to strangers...
If... -but us workers of the
Jastrzębie Mine can't get anything?
The chairman said if you need a
note there, it could be added.
-Please add it then.
Come in, come in!
So, I was about to say something...
It's a letter left by Wojciechowicz who
received a plot of land on District 3.
And he was told, that...
No mine is only open to 16:00,
they are open everyday until 17:00,
and then all the shops are closed.
It's a very, very
countryside town.
That's it! The
delicatessen is open...
He was mangled on the rails,
and that's all.
- A train.
- He was run over by the train?
So when is the funeral supposed to be?
- Madam, please don't...
- We don't know, perhaps on Thursday.
They told us in the hospital,
that if he didn't...
- Which hospital is he in?
- In Włodzisław.
- In Włodzisław...
- Well, but she wants to take him home.
- Of course, she has a place to live.
- But there is already...
- And what was his name?
- Bartosz Hubert.
-525-526
-That's on GPT, right?
If he was an employee, then
he's entitled to an orchestra.
He was from the GPC department,
wasn't he?
- Yes.
Well, if only I knew, I'll
have to find out exactly
when the funeral will take place.
Then we will prepare an orchestra,
OK, well. This is necessary...
- Please let me know tomorrow.
- Yes. OK.
OK, you don't need this personally, you
already have more troubles, and then this.
Let someone from the family, or
someone close let me know here.
That is: when and what hour.
Only where and what time
it will all start.
...it's navy-blue and on top it
says “Miners' Trade Union".
- Miners.
- Yes, perhaps not miners, but...
How long have you been
having these problems?
So speaking precisely,
it started even back in April.
Do you work here, citizen?
Just 6 weeks...
Listen mister, there is a thing
they are accusing you of,
that you are somehow
not doing right at work.
That you don't want to work, sir,
that you are slow, and so on.
Well, the case is that I'm working
in a mine for the first time.
I had my very first descent
March 4th, in Mine C.
OK.
And those scenes started right
at the beginning of April.
So it was just after I finished the
training period. 25 days after that...
And next you... you went, after
training, you went straight off down.
Which branch are you working in now?
- I had my training in G15.
OK. - And I came to G12
right from the first, didn't I?
Yes. - Right after finishing
the training.
And the case was that I would
take a month to practice, right?
No experience, besides,
people with permissions
were lacking a lot
on the belt conveyors,
or for pacer,
or for shearer.
I didn't know that stuff.
You should always find
a common language, somehow.
I believe that it is a duty of the
factory council to protect workers.
And the factory council should settle
any troubles in the worker's name.
And not the director, everything should
be handled by the management.
Administration-management will
have everything on hand.
And that's why the factory council
is really powerless on some things.
Why? Because the factory council is
financially involved with the director.
But what about
the last workers' council chairman?
I say they should have influence.
He's remembered because he's no longer with
us. He hanged himself after a few months.
He wanted to put his foot down.
So they told him: "Beware guy,
or we'll put your nose out of joint".
They did.
- Or not exactly that way...
-And where was the collective?
Where was the collective then?
Where were activists,
where was the collective?
The same fate may be
awaiting anyone.
Well, what's the general
conclusion here?
Do we have nothing to say?
That we're only here to work,
to make promises and nothing more?
Then it'll keep being bad
until the workers directly
have active influence
on the management of the plant.
On setting the plan,
on stating objective possibilities
for the execution of that plan.
And until those plans flow from below.
OUR AMBITION - LEADING RANK.
FACTORY CONFERENCE -Party organizations
in consultation with delegates
suggest for the candidates list
the following comrades:
First:
The First Secretary of our
party's Factory Committee,
Executive Committee member,
Comrade Bogdan Sęk.
Second:
Comrade Wyrozemski Aleksander. Ship-fitter
from the Naval Engines Factory.
Comrade Dzieliński Stanisław
from Locomotives and Coaches Factory.
Do comrades have any remarks
or other suggestions?
As far as Comrade Zieliński's
candidacy is concerned, we...
have also proposed it at the
conference with our delegates.
And this candidacy was adopted
unanimously, recognizing Zieliński's merits
in both work on the job
and in community service.
He is deservedly authorized
to represent our
factory as the delegate
to the Sixth Congress.
So can I take it that according to your
consultation, the proposal is certain?
- Yes.
- Thank you kindly. Others comments?
This is not only my opinion, but in
consultation with the secretaries,
that all the organizations
see Cegielski
as a delegate for our party's
Sixth Congress.
With reference
to all three candidates,
there are no objections, I believe.
All comrades in the commission
are unanimous.
Thank you very much.
Jan Baran, service
departments' inspection.
Among other things, at a meeting with
delegates from our service departments,
we have, among other things,
discussed the candidates,
which could be selected today to take
to the Sixth Congress of our party.
Concerning the candidacy
of the first secretary
of our factory committee,
Comrade Szajny.
It was by all means supported
because of his experience
as comrades have said here,
which has characterized him
since his youth.
And we as the service department
believe he definitely deserves to be
the delegate for the Sixth Congress.
Regardless, there should be
four comrades on the ticket.
So, according to the Central
Committee election instruction,
the room must complete the list
with another, let's call it, delegate.
Are there any remarks or suggestions
on this matter? Please.
I don't see any.
Is there a need to vote on this?
By all means, comrades!
I think that the committee's position
on this is rather unanimous.
So, for the formality, let go on.
Who is for it?
Thank you kindly.
In that case I see that the
proposition was accepted unanimously.
Therefore we end today's meeting of
the committee with that highlight.
Thank you very much.
It's not allowed to smoke in the meeting
room, so we may smoke a cigarette now.
We have a lot of time because the paper
will last somewhere around an hour.
- I was observing the life of fish.
- And what have you noticed?
I wanted to know if fish speak.
And what do they say?
They don’t, because they have water in their
mouths [polish idiom for keeping silent].
Thank you very much.
- Goodbye.
What is it?
- Who doesn't have a card yet?
- I don't have it yet.
Wait a minute. I gave out 150,
so you already have these cards.
The first and the second table
would be so kind
to cast votes in turns, by row,
here, into the first
ballet box from the right.
And the third and fourth table
will cast their votes here,
into this ballet box on the left.
So in turns please:
first row and in.
Come on.
It was going so well.
- Did you write ZMP? [Union of Polish Youth]
- Yes, I did.
After '48...
Which party. I don't know if they
monitor which party you were in.
Especially in organizations,
so write down ZMP, or...
ZMP, isn't it?
- ZMP. -Well, ZMP then.
Since when?
- Since '48.
- Here, here you put it.
- Well, good.
- Here put down Giermaszeń.
- Give this here.
- Is that it?
One, two... I will count
to 20 and ration them out.
Four, five six,
seven, eight, nine, ten.
A day before yesterday one of
the party foremen comes to me.
He says: What? Did they
make a commitment?
And then he says: It looks like it,
But I remind you they haven't
fulfilled that commitment.
But still they tried.
They went to the construction
company, to the manager.
And manager lent them
four oxygen tanks.
So they would make him...
But what’s that? A drop in the ocean.
76, 78, 85, 105,
112, 122, 126
126 by 3
We should be in
the Tatras Mountains for this?
That one already dropped out,
Wiśniewski, he's in second,
those two are third.
Everything is correct.
He'll get it soon.
I'm finishing. -Isn't this a draft?
- I have to rewrite it.
- Can I have a card?
- A card? Of course.
A card. -And can you
report it by the way?
No problem.
WJ3
- But I have to write to him.
- Don't you have it counted?
No. I have it counted, but you know.
So I'm finishing. I am doing the end.
- Well.
- One moment.
The matter is that...
Are the seventh ready?
It is important.
In such a team, come on,
Comrade Pumaczowa.
Pawełek Waser also thanks you.
Returning committee's report.
Results of delegates election
oo the Sixth Congress of the PZPR.
Filipiak Włodzimierz received 40 votes.
Sajna Bogdan - 140 votes.
Wyrozemski Aleksander -118.
Zieliński Stanisław - 132.
The returning committee states that as
delegates for the Sixth Congress
of the Polish United Workers'
Party were elected:
Comrades Sajna Bogdan, Wyrozemski
Aleksander, and Zieliński Stanisław.
Arise, ye workers from your slumber,
Arise, ye prisoners of want.
For reason in revolt now thunders,
at last ends the age of cant!
CONVERSATION
It should be fortified
in the constitution brother,
or if you please
in anything else,
that no one has the right to order
the shooting of a worker or to shoot.
After all, if you please, it's a
country of workers and peasants.
By what right, please
understand, it could happened,
that someone decides
to order people shot!
I think... -By what right,
gentlemen, by what right?
But not everything from here
reaches us up there.
Well, that's it,
that's the matter! -Yes!
Go back in your mind,
if you please, remember back.
There was always,
if you please, the sine wave.
It was going up,
shares were going up,
and then, if you please, they were
systematically and suddenly falling.
You are 56 years old.
People who already hardened
to their ways... -Wait, just a minute.
But it was endlessly believed
that it would be our country.
But it is also, it is also
spread over time somehow.
Spread over time.
To rise. And slowly,
slowly, slowly fall.
It's such a serious system,
nothing should happen,
if that party would respect its laws.
If she would maintain some contact
with the working class.
But when the worker's not allowed
to open his mouth, right,
it will never get better.
That's the point.
The worker will also have
to voice his opinion.
What does he want, and
how does he want it.
Concerning the work, I'm sure
that all of us will go all out, right,
to work the best, most
efficient way possible.
But I think we will also do
everything so they won't cheat us,
so they won't cheat us,
spit on us, like before.
And so there would be some payments
for that, for the work.
Lest December happens again next year.
-After all it's just logical.
You can't make bricks without straw.
We were exhausted for so long,
and we still are.
We'll feel that pain let's say,
another year, another two years.
But if the improvement is
systematic and if it grows,
then you will tighten your belt, do
your work, and everything will be fine.
All you have to do is make it
happen, to see the real desires,
to look after it to make it better
and to proceed in making it better.
I believe that we should
stand by this conclusion.
Surely there will be people
who will start to stroke
or spread the honeycomb again, polish
the ice-cream, and so on. -Indeed!
As for social-pedagogical matters,
they still haven't registered us yet,
over and over again, haven't they?
Yes! That's it.
They laughed at a whole
bunch of serious matters
in management, right,
in politics, and so on.
- They are covering our eyes!
- Other's cases, side issues, right.
Work and pay is most important for me.
Social and living conditions,
are very important, right,
But no less is: how will we manage.
What will we do, right?
Who will do it?
- Is it good?
- Is it good, or bad, right?
Those people, who will
take the positions, right,
they should feel like stewards.
But if they don't, if they lack
that responsibility - remove them.
And if everyone will think
that he won't be punished for that,
we will know,
that many of those who...
- For the honest ones that's really...
- When I look at all of this...
Honest ones also have to account, so
they don't get tangled just by chance.
-No, they won't.
Perhaps, maybe not.
But we all know perfectly well
how Edward Gierek started.
He hardly had any supporters.
The only support he gained was
from the working class - from us.
- Of course it's in us!
- Yeah.
But there is one,
there is one thing.
He ought to keep, to lead that course,
an open and honest one.
Still honest with the worker.
So it wouldn't be a secret.
So it would stop
being a secret already,
at all times,
about all actions undertaken.
Because, please understand
you won't go in.
We want to participate normally
in the political life,
and in social life.
There used to be a saying:
Nothing about us without us,
nothing about us without us, right?
Here we are a country of
workers and peasants.
That's one thing, on the other hand:
I don't think, that it must be a rule,
that the factory director,
department manager, or anyone else,
has to be a party member.
No, of course, it can't be.
- Not necessary.
- That's not the point, right.
- A qualified man.
- He’s nominated and meets qualifications.
- They can't put it that way.
- No, after all now it’s a conversation.
Gierek said it himself.
- They can't put it that way, that...
he has to be a party member.
- That everyone must be practically.
That one may have lower qualifications,
etc. But he has to be a party member.
- Why?
- These differences should be erased.
Give them the opportunity, talented
people, active ones, right.
Those who know how to work,
want to and can work.
Moreover, they were
instilled even recently,
after those December Events, that
in the end we are just the ruling class.
So let's say, that we are the hosts
of the land, not anybody else.
Will this be our province, or our
country? - I think I feel that.
We must, let's finally feel that
way at last. Begin to feel it
and want something concrete to do,
and to demand that as well.
People have learned one thing:
That, apart from looking
at your own plate,
one also looks further past that now.
- For sure, for sure, that's...
- Simply, if you please,
...that is finally going to change.
To be able to use it
in the right way, right?
And not let people down.
Because if they are let down once,
a second, a third time,
then in the end it can't be counted on,
that promises will be made,
and it can't be done.
THE INTERNATIONALE
-Comrades, please,
the Election commission has determined
the candidate for the Congress.
It was decided to
present at the conference,
Comrade Bartoszewicz.
Comrade Ryszard Bartoszewicz
works in department U1 -
the wood department.
He is a carpenter.
Rich for poor.
-Gentlemen, if you please,
-I suggest Comrade Dopierała.
Comrade Dopierała, while at the forefront
of the union's authority for several years,
he kept position of the
First Secretary the whole time.
But it is our wish, and I think your
applause shows it comrades,
that Comrade Dopierała should represent us as
a delegate for Sixth Congress of our party.
At the same time I propose,
that Comrade Dopierała,
in the same way, is sent as a delegate
for the district conference
of the Polish United Workers'
Party. Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
Please, if any comrades have remarks,
to the proposition proposed
here by Comrade Pawlak?
I want to highlight here
that comrades proposing
the next candidates
should also specify, in whose place
they go as. Please, go on.
Does Comrade Dopierała agree
to run, because that is important?
Please answer.
Comrades, this is how I feel:
There will be Sixth Party's Congress.
The Party's Congress has to take a stand
in relation to policy pursued
and give it a new direction.
But it is my feeling, however,
that in the Congress the factory
should be represented by a comrade
who directly stands
on the front line.
Directly in contact with production.
My feeling is that the secretary
of the organization these days
should nevertheless be
on the party organization.
Because there will be after all an
intensification of political work,
the anniversary of the
December Events is approaching,
and as a political manager
here in shipyard,
I would rather see myself here,
in the factory. In these exact days.
Therefore, I would like to ask you
to remove my name
from the list of candidates.
You are supposed to do it
according to statutes requirement.
The proposition was given,
since only two are needed,
therefore, we now proceed
with the first,
proposed by the Electoral Committee.
To Comrade Bartosiewicz,
that he should state
whether he wants to attend the Congress
and represent the shipyards.
To the candidate.
Comrades, my candidacy was discussed at
the factory committee's plenum session.
When I first heard this proposal...
I should say that it was unexpected.
In the plenary session
and at the meeting with the secretaries...
It simply seemed to me
at a glance, that, well...
I didn't know if I could
manage such a thing.
However, in the plenum,
when they talked to me,
most comrades, they said,
that nevertheless they
see me as a candidate,
that I am able to after all.
I believe I won't
disappoint this confidence,
and I will try, if possible to fulfill
the needs we have in this moment.
Well, I have one more proposal.
As we, according to statute
and also with the new instructions,
I would like an equal partner.
And if I am a worker,
I feel that in any case,
that the First Secretary has
a certain superiority over me.
Therefore, in that case, I
withdraw... withdraw my candidacy.
As something informal.
It's not for me.
Comrade Michalak, please!
Please keep calm!
Please... I'm asking for a vote.
-Comrade Michalak, please.
Excuse me.
I ask for a vote, comrades.
Towards the candidate's statement,
which he stated here,
it is “not serious” comrades,
how do you put it?
As an “equal party member”, what,
is the secretary not equal to you?
An equal party member!
Surely the same as you are!
And if he is the First Secretary,
then how do you put it?!
That he has some superiority over you?!
You can't put it that way!
"I withdraw".
“It's not serious!”
Thank you very much. Colleague.
Comrades will of course
express their opinion by voting.
I propose we put to a vote
the first candidate,
Comrade Bartosiewicz, proposed
by the Electoral Commission.
Who of you, comrades, is for putting
him onto the election list?
Go on. We vote by mandate.
Thank you very much.
Who abstained?
- And who is against?
- 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10!
-With nine abstained.
And who else is against?
With one against.
The candidacy of Comrade Bartosiewicz
is put on electoral list
by majority of votes.
The next candidacy of comrade...
Comrade Linowski.
A point of order.
I think, dear comrades,
that we are making mistakes here.
Although they may be not so
important, it seems to me
that the many comrades
who don't know Comrade Bartosiewicz
would have questions for him.
But if we put him on list,
we agree to everything,
Then it is enough for us to vote.
I, for example, don't know
Comrade Bartosiewicz
from the point of his social work.
I don't know how long
he's worked in the shipyard.
There was a question, how many years
has he worked in the shipyard,
because it needs to be asked.
So eventually I may know
on whom I'll be voting.
So perhaps I would like to...
I would like to answer
some of the questions.
So please, ask me them.
I am here, in the presidium, after all.
Regarding the shipyard:
I've worked here since 1960,
since 28 October.
In eight days I am finishing
11 years of work in the shipyard.
Thank you, Comrade Badowski.
I have a specific question
to put to the candidates.
So they should answer yes, or no.
Do they want to represent us, or not?
Specifically! Yes or no!
Don't swim around it or say nothing.
Tell us either yes or no.
First one candidate
and then the second one..
So Comrade Dopierała answers,
if he agrees or not.
I ask to be crossed out from the list.
Comrades, who on that issue please?
Comrade Pawlak.
-Comrades. It can't be
put that way: yes or no.
Comrades, if we choose a comrade,
it is an honor
to be a delegate for the Sixth Congress.
It is maybe the most
highly active reward
which a party member could ever get,
to be a representative in such forum
that will take place at the Congress.
And such attitude,
it is rather out of place.
And I believe,
that he should be put on the list!
- Comrade Linowski, please.
- Comrade Dopierała,
as an old activist, we know
each other after all, right?
I would say that it was
out of place, your statement.
So, if Comrade Łazowski
has expressed himself badly
and let's say capriciously,
then let's say,
that Comrade Łazowski
is not mature enough,
expressing himself way that...
If let's say we give a mandate
to Comrade Dopierała,
then I don't think we would discuss it.
And Dopierała insisted they
couldn't tell us that because
since Łazowski expressing himself badly,
I resign from mandate.
That's not true, Comrade Dopierała!
It must be said that what you
said at the beginning,
comrades here said
that if you are not here,
then we'll roll our sleeves up and
defend what you have gained!
Do you understand?
And I don't think
there should be any excuses here.
Let's say it this way:
I don't want to be ashamed, let's say.
You Comrade Dopierała, as I remember
you, you came from production.
You worked on production.
You were secretary and I believe
you should continue to be.
So I support the candidacy
of Comrade Dopierała
for, let's say, delegate
for the Congress of our party.
- So perhaps right away.
- Bring the comrades to Warsaw.
The Comrade is for representing
us accordingly each day.
- Comrade Dopierała, yes, or no?
- Yes.
I am supporting myself.
It is put correctly.
Political and organizational motions.
Sanction the existence of a workers'
self-government organization, workers
in the draft of the new constitution.
I hope we will discuss it.
Our statute must be worked
out at the Sixth Congress.
It must apply to everyone,
from top to bottom and vice versa.
It can't be as it was before.
Introduce a rule
of accounting party members,
in front of party organization
they belong to
regardless of the sanctions
applied by a superior unit,
in which the person concerned works.
It should be clearly committed
and consistently required
from the provincial authorities
to initiate a renewal
on every lower level.
In our opinion, the renewal of economic
and political life is too slow.
Most discussants scrutinized
the methods and forms of party training.
That it is outdated, dull,
that it is simply not
the need of our times.
We are of the opinion that
the working week should be shortened,
which would ensure better
regeneration of workers' strength.
Of course it must go hand in hand
with the expansion of recreational and
cultural facilities.
Verify impractical admission rules
for higher education,
where it is wrong, incomprehensible for us
to using the rubric of social background,
instead of being guided
solely by skills and knowledge.
Generally rebuild the government
structure and remuneration system
in a way that guarantees the livelihood
of a family by one working member,
which would enable wives to raise
children, run a household.
Extend maternity leave payable to
to one year for working mothers.
I announce:
Submitted candidates
received for delegates,
for delegates to
the Sixth Party Congress.
Comrade Bartoszewicz Ryszard - 51 votes.
Comrade Dopierała Mieczysław - 94 votes.
Comrade Dopierała Mieczysław is elected.
Arise, ye workers from your slumber,
Arise, ye prisoners of want.
For reason in revolt now thunders,
and at last ends the age of cant!
Away with all your superstitions,
Servile masses, arise, arise!
We'll change henceforth
the old tradition,
And spurn the dust to win the prize!
VIEW FROM ABOVE
Warsaw speaking, Program One.
It's six o'clock and we are
broadcasting the morning review.
Kielce was visited yesterday
by the First Secretary
of the Central Committee of the Polish
United Workers' Party, Edward Gierek.
INDUSTRY-PROGRESS-SOCIALISM
He toured several leading
industrial facilities
and met with workers,
or in this case miners.
SOCIALISM - GUARANTEES SAFETY AND
HARMONIOUS PEACE IN PEOPLE'S POLAND
Will the mission of working class unity…
Every day the number of factories fall…
WORKERS' COURT INCREASED DISCIPLINE
AND THRIFT IN EVERY WORKPLACE
GLORY TO WORKING PEOPLE
LONG LIVE THE POLISH PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC
WORKERS 1971:
NOTHING ABOUT US
WITHOUT US
DISTRIBUTION OF LABOR
Pillar A1! Młodzik!
- Niemiec!
- Present.
- Wójcik!
- Present.
- Kukla!
- Present.
- Górnik!
- Present.
Pillar C1.
- Herst!
- Present.
- Gąsior!
- Present.
- Łebek!
- Present.
- Jurownik!
- Present.
- And Makowski!
- Present.
- Pillar C1a. Apriok!
- Absent.
- Tatarczyk!
- Present.
- Kazimierczak!
- Present.
- Zela!
- Present.
Demidowicz!
TOOLS
16, your name?
Gaźbowski, right?
Romanowski...
He hasn't prepared it, you know.
He hasn't prepared it yet.
But what kind of work is it?
Grip? There is no full set.
No, it isn’t set.
Lenda and Cyra
haven't prepared it for him.
They have cards, but they wander around
and don't think about preparing it.
-You took that much already.
But now I'll stand and wait for work.
You won't stand here, I'll just
heap it on and come back!
- How long then?
- About one hour for him...
- I'll be waiting...
- What do you have?
- This ones for radiators.
- No, no radiators.
Mr Kosumek!
Communism sharpens your teeth,
it will calm down finally and...
But what's there to say...
PUBLIC MEETING
-Let's say it like it is.
The rule is: you talk too much - they
throw you out. And that's what happened.
That's what happened!
- Our deputy.
- Manager.
Sure it happened,
he came to...
- The Chairman come from the committee.
- Mr Orłowski?
Yes. He called me
here and talked to me.
I told him the truth,
that we work hard, and we earn little.
That we're on a shoestring,
that we're soaking with sweat...
for high quotas and low wages.
They told us, sure.
So I told them how things are:
that we don't have the coupons
we don't know the prices,
we don't know how much we earn,
we don't really know what we work for.
And the next day after that
they called me upstairs and gave
me a transfer card.
But why are you afraid
to talk about these things?
People are afraid because
they're kicked out the door after that.
I would’ve been out the door myself
if my doctor hadn't saved me.
-I'm telling you that's over.
No one's kicked out for that.
If the doctor hadn't given me the note
that I can't be transferred...
There are things that if you
don't like it, the gate is wide open.
And you have to go, don't you?
That's why everyone is scared.
Please, feel very free to...
Please talk and behave the way you
always do in any congress.
How large the raise is going to be
is a matter, isn't it? -Yes.
- Well, within five years, no.
- But how? When it comes to raises,
how are you going to get the raise
that you are talking about now.
By the guidelines... in
the guidelines for the Sixth Congress,
it is assumed to be 17-18%
through technical progress.
By upgrading personnel grades.
How? The machine can't put out more,
it's already at 1500 watts!
How could it, how could it do more?
Accidents already happen.
Unless we are going
to do two shifts.
Superiors...
After working here so many years,
A man is going to die with
this group. I'll sit!
-But gentlemen, with good machines.
This is automated work for you.
Yes, it is.
But what will be the quota?
How does he choose it?
Well spoken!
The quota will be the same,
but the salary per
personnel grade will be higher.
It's not about the grade
if a worker can only go up by group.
After a few years can they apply
for group VI? Group X let's say?
But they're only on hourly pay when
groups are entitled to higher day rates!
But the reports…
If the losses are still bad,
it is our duty to
fix and regulate them.
But if it's bad, then well...
I would like to raise one more issue.
Our quotas are too high.
Each little while he comes by
and he raises our quotas.
Now it turns out that I work a
whole 8 hours for 36 zlotys.
Tell me, how can one live
with such a salary
and how can one keep a house with that?
We can hold a grudge
against the manager,
but he is just as innocent as we are.
The actuary comes, each time
he notices anything new.
Boom - he gives us a new quota.
He gives a high quota, we work hard,
faster, and eventually
there are rejects,
because it's not quality that
matters, but quantity!
So we ruin materials,
because we’re running
it faster, faster, faster, faster...
One group rushes another.
It happens that a lot of money is made,
but a good part of it
is thrown down the drain.
I'll explain everything,
Mrs. Biegucka.
What you are saying...
What you are saying,
is only partly true.
Come on, every woman here will confirm!
When you were speaking, I didn't
interrupt you, Mrs. Biegucka.
And no one has told you
that you can't earn more.
And please tell me if
there are accidents like
that when a worker earns
2500 or 3000 zlotys,
someone cuts his pay.
Please tell me.
Were they? Are they?
- There were those cases!
- Well, when were they?
Before the December Events.
Well, that was then
now is a new period, no?
Sure, but one can't tell
how things will be in it.
No. So far it hasn’t been that way,
and it doesn't look like it'll be
that if he earns 3000 zlotys...
- Cause if you earned 2000, 2800 or 3200,
then he came and halved it.
- Yes, you're right that that happened.
There was chimney regulation,
now chimneys don't exist.
Unless you were
punished for not working!
It is just a matter of
looking after our components.
When they come right from transport,
they look like this:
Clean legs, elegant,
no corrosion on them at all.
We unload them here.
They lie without any cover,
without anything.
Outside, it's raining, snowing,
winter or not winter.
Then those legs look like this:
How much does is take to put them
to work now? Twice as much. At least!
But the price is,
unfortunately, the same.
No one can do a thing about it then.
And this is not about much, it is
not about any damn financial outlays.
It's just about covering
it with something,
so it won't rain and snow on them.
Then it won't be as rusty
as it is now.
And twice the work doesn't need to
be done when the price is the same.
And tons of acid goes on it. Acid is
wasted, but labor is paid the same.
How much in savings would that be!
HANDS
HEADS
-Here is a finished device again.
Molding could be brought to here..
- It's a bit heavy...
- What?
- Too heavy.
- Sure it's heavy, but this...
This one can be rolled up immediately.
- Look, see... wait.
It's stuck now.
It's jammed, let's see.
What happened here? I forgot the driver.
-No, no. Not from this side.
You can pull it away from there.
Jesus!
- It's coming.
- Slowly.
It got dirty here.
A bit.
Some scruff got inside.
So now. It would lighten
your load a lot, wouldn't it?
Yeah, it's already
running on those routes.
Our route is quite overloaded here.
You can't unscrew this screw.
Unscrew the screw while it stays there.
- So there we go...
- We had pliers like these ones.
And they wasted my day
just knocking me out.
Because there is no possibility, unless
here it is: the pump may be damaged.
It may not work.
- The pump could be damaged.
And now remove it. You may be
able to improve this job yourself.
Make it easier and faster.
- Right away.
Twelve minutes for
the one piece. And...
10 pieces go to the engine.
- 10 pieces.
10 pieces per engine, that is,
we would have an hour,
One, 10 pieces,
120 minutes or 2 hours.
Yes.
-2 hours would be down.
For an engine.
It pays off this way.
DISTRICT
INNOVATIVE LEATHER INDUSTRY PLANTS
CULTURAL CENTER
Already, Black?
Already?
Now there will be a song:
In the mountains and valleys,
You all know about this,
That our factory,
Is already famous
And we enlist!
- You give up today.
- To sit down a bit.
- So, start, now!
In the mountains and valleys,
Ey, in the mountains and valleys
You all know about this
WE WELCOME THE VI PZPR CONGRESS
Ey, that our factory
is already famous.
Ey, that our factory
is already famous
Though we make shoes,
we walk in moccasins,
Tatras Mountains above all,
Our hearts are with highlanders.
Ey, though we make shoes
We walk in moccasins…
FACTORY COMMITTEE
-Zenek, Zenek!
I have a letter for him,
in the red briefcase.
A letter concerning that case?
That guard, who...
And he asked the chairman not to...
- Well, okay.
- But I would like to have it...
In such a case I must have it
in black and white.
Otherwise people would get on me.
They would say that we give
things out to strangers...
If... -but us workers of the
Jastrzębie Mine can't get anything?
The chairman said if you need a
note there, it could be added.
-Please add it then.
Come in, come in!
So, I was about to say something...
It's a letter left by Wojciechowicz who
received a plot of land on District 3.
And he was told, that...
No mine is only open to 16:00,
they are open everyday until 17:00,
and then all the shops are closed.
It's a very, very
countryside town.
That's it! The
delicatessen is open...
He was mangled on the rails,
and that's all.
- A train.
- He was run over by the train?
So when is the funeral supposed to be?
- Madam, please don't...
- We don't know, perhaps on Thursday.
They told us in the hospital,
that if he didn't...
- Which hospital is he in?
- In Włodzisław.
- In Włodzisław...
- Well, but she wants to take him home.
- Of course, she has a place to live.
- But there is already...
- And what was his name?
- Bartosz Hubert.
-525-526
-That's on GPT, right?
If he was an employee, then
he's entitled to an orchestra.
He was from the GPC department,
wasn't he?
- Yes.
Well, if only I knew, I'll
have to find out exactly
when the funeral will take place.
Then we will prepare an orchestra,
OK, well. This is necessary...
- Please let me know tomorrow.
- Yes. OK.
OK, you don't need this personally, you
already have more troubles, and then this.
Let someone from the family, or
someone close let me know here.
That is: when and what hour.
Only where and what time
it will all start.
...it's navy-blue and on top it
says “Miners' Trade Union".
- Miners.
- Yes, perhaps not miners, but...
How long have you been
having these problems?
So speaking precisely,
it started even back in April.
Do you work here, citizen?
Just 6 weeks...
Listen mister, there is a thing
they are accusing you of,
that you are somehow
not doing right at work.
That you don't want to work, sir,
that you are slow, and so on.
Well, the case is that I'm working
in a mine for the first time.
I had my very first descent
March 4th, in Mine C.
OK.
And those scenes started right
at the beginning of April.
So it was just after I finished the
training period. 25 days after that...
And next you... you went, after
training, you went straight off down.
Which branch are you working in now?
- I had my training in G15.
OK. - And I came to G12
right from the first, didn't I?
Yes. - Right after finishing
the training.
And the case was that I would
take a month to practice, right?
No experience, besides,
people with permissions
were lacking a lot
on the belt conveyors,
or for pacer,
or for shearer.
I didn't know that stuff.
You should always find
a common language, somehow.
I believe that it is a duty of the
factory council to protect workers.
And the factory council should settle
any troubles in the worker's name.
And not the director, everything should
be handled by the management.
Administration-management will
have everything on hand.
And that's why the factory council
is really powerless on some things.
Why? Because the factory council is
financially involved with the director.
But what about
the last workers' council chairman?
I say they should have influence.
He's remembered because he's no longer with
us. He hanged himself after a few months.
He wanted to put his foot down.
So they told him: "Beware guy,
or we'll put your nose out of joint".
They did.
- Or not exactly that way...
-And where was the collective?
Where was the collective then?
Where were activists,
where was the collective?
The same fate may be
awaiting anyone.
Well, what's the general
conclusion here?
Do we have nothing to say?
That we're only here to work,
to make promises and nothing more?
Then it'll keep being bad
until the workers directly
have active influence
on the management of the plant.
On setting the plan,
on stating objective possibilities
for the execution of that plan.
And until those plans flow from below.
OUR AMBITION - LEADING RANK.
FACTORY CONFERENCE -Party organizations
in consultation with delegates
suggest for the candidates list
the following comrades:
First:
The First Secretary of our
party's Factory Committee,
Executive Committee member,
Comrade Bogdan Sęk.
Second:
Comrade Wyrozemski Aleksander. Ship-fitter
from the Naval Engines Factory.
Comrade Dzieliński Stanisław
from Locomotives and Coaches Factory.
Do comrades have any remarks
or other suggestions?
As far as Comrade Zieliński's
candidacy is concerned, we...
have also proposed it at the
conference with our delegates.
And this candidacy was adopted
unanimously, recognizing Zieliński's merits
in both work on the job
and in community service.
He is deservedly authorized
to represent our
factory as the delegate
to the Sixth Congress.
So can I take it that according to your
consultation, the proposal is certain?
- Yes.
- Thank you kindly. Others comments?
This is not only my opinion, but in
consultation with the secretaries,
that all the organizations
see Cegielski
as a delegate for our party's
Sixth Congress.
With reference
to all three candidates,
there are no objections, I believe.
All comrades in the commission
are unanimous.
Thank you very much.
Jan Baran, service
departments' inspection.
Among other things, at a meeting with
delegates from our service departments,
we have, among other things,
discussed the candidates,
which could be selected today to take
to the Sixth Congress of our party.
Concerning the candidacy
of the first secretary
of our factory committee,
Comrade Szajny.
It was by all means supported
because of his experience
as comrades have said here,
which has characterized him
since his youth.
And we as the service department
believe he definitely deserves to be
the delegate for the Sixth Congress.
Regardless, there should be
four comrades on the ticket.
So, according to the Central
Committee election instruction,
the room must complete the list
with another, let's call it, delegate.
Are there any remarks or suggestions
on this matter? Please.
I don't see any.
Is there a need to vote on this?
By all means, comrades!
I think that the committee's position
on this is rather unanimous.
So, for the formality, let go on.
Who is for it?
Thank you kindly.
In that case I see that the
proposition was accepted unanimously.
Therefore we end today's meeting of
the committee with that highlight.
Thank you very much.
It's not allowed to smoke in the meeting
room, so we may smoke a cigarette now.
We have a lot of time because the paper
will last somewhere around an hour.
- I was observing the life of fish.
- And what have you noticed?
I wanted to know if fish speak.
And what do they say?
They don’t, because they have water in their
mouths [polish idiom for keeping silent].
Thank you very much.
- Goodbye.
What is it?
- Who doesn't have a card yet?
- I don't have it yet.
Wait a minute. I gave out 150,
so you already have these cards.
The first and the second table
would be so kind
to cast votes in turns, by row,
here, into the first
ballet box from the right.
And the third and fourth table
will cast their votes here,
into this ballet box on the left.
So in turns please:
first row and in.
Come on.
It was going so well.
- Did you write ZMP? [Union of Polish Youth]
- Yes, I did.
After '48...
Which party. I don't know if they
monitor which party you were in.
Especially in organizations,
so write down ZMP, or...
ZMP, isn't it?
- ZMP. -Well, ZMP then.
Since when?
- Since '48.
- Here, here you put it.
- Well, good.
- Here put down Giermaszeń.
- Give this here.
- Is that it?
One, two... I will count
to 20 and ration them out.
Four, five six,
seven, eight, nine, ten.
A day before yesterday one of
the party foremen comes to me.
He says: What? Did they
make a commitment?
And then he says: It looks like it,
But I remind you they haven't
fulfilled that commitment.
But still they tried.
They went to the construction
company, to the manager.
And manager lent them
four oxygen tanks.
So they would make him...
But what’s that? A drop in the ocean.
76, 78, 85, 105,
112, 122, 126
126 by 3
We should be in
the Tatras Mountains for this?
That one already dropped out,
Wiśniewski, he's in second,
those two are third.
Everything is correct.
He'll get it soon.
I'm finishing. -Isn't this a draft?
- I have to rewrite it.
- Can I have a card?
- A card? Of course.
A card. -And can you
report it by the way?
No problem.
WJ3
- But I have to write to him.
- Don't you have it counted?
No. I have it counted, but you know.
So I'm finishing. I am doing the end.
- Well.
- One moment.
The matter is that...
Are the seventh ready?
It is important.
In such a team, come on,
Comrade Pumaczowa.
Pawełek Waser also thanks you.
Returning committee's report.
Results of delegates election
oo the Sixth Congress of the PZPR.
Filipiak Włodzimierz received 40 votes.
Sajna Bogdan - 140 votes.
Wyrozemski Aleksander -118.
Zieliński Stanisław - 132.
The returning committee states that as
delegates for the Sixth Congress
of the Polish United Workers'
Party were elected:
Comrades Sajna Bogdan, Wyrozemski
Aleksander, and Zieliński Stanisław.
Arise, ye workers from your slumber,
Arise, ye prisoners of want.
For reason in revolt now thunders,
at last ends the age of cant!
CONVERSATION
It should be fortified
in the constitution brother,
or if you please
in anything else,
that no one has the right to order
the shooting of a worker or to shoot.
After all, if you please, it's a
country of workers and peasants.
By what right, please
understand, it could happened,
that someone decides
to order people shot!
I think... -By what right,
gentlemen, by what right?
But not everything from here
reaches us up there.
Well, that's it,
that's the matter! -Yes!
Go back in your mind,
if you please, remember back.
There was always,
if you please, the sine wave.
It was going up,
shares were going up,
and then, if you please, they were
systematically and suddenly falling.
You are 56 years old.
People who already hardened
to their ways... -Wait, just a minute.
But it was endlessly believed
that it would be our country.
But it is also, it is also
spread over time somehow.
Spread over time.
To rise. And slowly,
slowly, slowly fall.
It's such a serious system,
nothing should happen,
if that party would respect its laws.
If she would maintain some contact
with the working class.
But when the worker's not allowed
to open his mouth, right,
it will never get better.
That's the point.
The worker will also have
to voice his opinion.
What does he want, and
how does he want it.
Concerning the work, I'm sure
that all of us will go all out, right,
to work the best, most
efficient way possible.
But I think we will also do
everything so they won't cheat us,
so they won't cheat us,
spit on us, like before.
And so there would be some payments
for that, for the work.
Lest December happens again next year.
-After all it's just logical.
You can't make bricks without straw.
We were exhausted for so long,
and we still are.
We'll feel that pain let's say,
another year, another two years.
But if the improvement is
systematic and if it grows,
then you will tighten your belt, do
your work, and everything will be fine.
All you have to do is make it
happen, to see the real desires,
to look after it to make it better
and to proceed in making it better.
I believe that we should
stand by this conclusion.
Surely there will be people
who will start to stroke
or spread the honeycomb again, polish
the ice-cream, and so on. -Indeed!
As for social-pedagogical matters,
they still haven't registered us yet,
over and over again, haven't they?
Yes! That's it.
They laughed at a whole
bunch of serious matters
in management, right,
in politics, and so on.
- They are covering our eyes!
- Other's cases, side issues, right.
Work and pay is most important for me.
Social and living conditions,
are very important, right,
But no less is: how will we manage.
What will we do, right?
Who will do it?
- Is it good?
- Is it good, or bad, right?
Those people, who will
take the positions, right,
they should feel like stewards.
But if they don't, if they lack
that responsibility - remove them.
And if everyone will think
that he won't be punished for that,
we will know,
that many of those who...
- For the honest ones that's really...
- When I look at all of this...
Honest ones also have to account, so
they don't get tangled just by chance.
-No, they won't.
Perhaps, maybe not.
But we all know perfectly well
how Edward Gierek started.
He hardly had any supporters.
The only support he gained was
from the working class - from us.
- Of course it's in us!
- Yeah.
But there is one,
there is one thing.
He ought to keep, to lead that course,
an open and honest one.
Still honest with the worker.
So it wouldn't be a secret.
So it would stop
being a secret already,
at all times,
about all actions undertaken.
Because, please understand
you won't go in.
We want to participate normally
in the political life,
and in social life.
There used to be a saying:
Nothing about us without us,
nothing about us without us, right?
Here we are a country of
workers and peasants.
That's one thing, on the other hand:
I don't think, that it must be a rule,
that the factory director,
department manager, or anyone else,
has to be a party member.
No, of course, it can't be.
- Not necessary.
- That's not the point, right.
- A qualified man.
- He’s nominated and meets qualifications.
- They can't put it that way.
- No, after all now it’s a conversation.
Gierek said it himself.
- They can't put it that way, that...
he has to be a party member.
- That everyone must be practically.
That one may have lower qualifications,
etc. But he has to be a party member.
- Why?
- These differences should be erased.
Give them the opportunity, talented
people, active ones, right.
Those who know how to work,
want to and can work.
Moreover, they were
instilled even recently,
after those December Events, that
in the end we are just the ruling class.
So let's say, that we are the hosts
of the land, not anybody else.
Will this be our province, or our
country? - I think I feel that.
We must, let's finally feel that
way at last. Begin to feel it
and want something concrete to do,
and to demand that as well.
People have learned one thing:
That, apart from looking
at your own plate,
one also looks further past that now.
- For sure, for sure, that's...
- Simply, if you please,
...that is finally going to change.
To be able to use it
in the right way, right?
And not let people down.
Because if they are let down once,
a second, a third time,
then in the end it can't be counted on,
that promises will be made,
and it can't be done.
THE INTERNATIONALE
-Comrades, please,
the Election commission has determined
the candidate for the Congress.
It was decided to
present at the conference,
Comrade Bartoszewicz.
Comrade Ryszard Bartoszewicz
works in department U1 -
the wood department.
He is a carpenter.
Rich for poor.
-Gentlemen, if you please,
-I suggest Comrade Dopierała.
Comrade Dopierała, while at the forefront
of the union's authority for several years,
he kept position of the
First Secretary the whole time.
But it is our wish, and I think your
applause shows it comrades,
that Comrade Dopierała should represent us as
a delegate for Sixth Congress of our party.
At the same time I propose,
that Comrade Dopierała,
in the same way, is sent as a delegate
for the district conference
of the Polish United Workers'
Party. Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
Please, if any comrades have remarks,
to the proposition proposed
here by Comrade Pawlak?
I want to highlight here
that comrades proposing
the next candidates
should also specify, in whose place
they go as. Please, go on.
Does Comrade Dopierała agree
to run, because that is important?
Please answer.
Comrades, this is how I feel:
There will be Sixth Party's Congress.
The Party's Congress has to take a stand
in relation to policy pursued
and give it a new direction.
But it is my feeling, however,
that in the Congress the factory
should be represented by a comrade
who directly stands
on the front line.
Directly in contact with production.
My feeling is that the secretary
of the organization these days
should nevertheless be
on the party organization.
Because there will be after all an
intensification of political work,
the anniversary of the
December Events is approaching,
and as a political manager
here in shipyard,
I would rather see myself here,
in the factory. In these exact days.
Therefore, I would like to ask you
to remove my name
from the list of candidates.
You are supposed to do it
according to statutes requirement.
The proposition was given,
since only two are needed,
therefore, we now proceed
with the first,
proposed by the Electoral Committee.
To Comrade Bartosiewicz,
that he should state
whether he wants to attend the Congress
and represent the shipyards.
To the candidate.
Comrades, my candidacy was discussed at
the factory committee's plenum session.
When I first heard this proposal...
I should say that it was unexpected.
In the plenary session
and at the meeting with the secretaries...
It simply seemed to me
at a glance, that, well...
I didn't know if I could
manage such a thing.
However, in the plenum,
when they talked to me,
most comrades, they said,
that nevertheless they
see me as a candidate,
that I am able to after all.
I believe I won't
disappoint this confidence,
and I will try, if possible to fulfill
the needs we have in this moment.
Well, I have one more proposal.
As we, according to statute
and also with the new instructions,
I would like an equal partner.
And if I am a worker,
I feel that in any case,
that the First Secretary has
a certain superiority over me.
Therefore, in that case, I
withdraw... withdraw my candidacy.
As something informal.
It's not for me.
Comrade Michalak, please!
Please keep calm!
Please... I'm asking for a vote.
-Comrade Michalak, please.
Excuse me.
I ask for a vote, comrades.
Towards the candidate's statement,
which he stated here,
it is “not serious” comrades,
how do you put it?
As an “equal party member”, what,
is the secretary not equal to you?
An equal party member!
Surely the same as you are!
And if he is the First Secretary,
then how do you put it?!
That he has some superiority over you?!
You can't put it that way!
"I withdraw".
“It's not serious!”
Thank you very much. Colleague.
Comrades will of course
express their opinion by voting.
I propose we put to a vote
the first candidate,
Comrade Bartosiewicz, proposed
by the Electoral Commission.
Who of you, comrades, is for putting
him onto the election list?
Go on. We vote by mandate.
Thank you very much.
Who abstained?
- And who is against?
- 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10!
-With nine abstained.
And who else is against?
With one against.
The candidacy of Comrade Bartosiewicz
is put on electoral list
by majority of votes.
The next candidacy of comrade...
Comrade Linowski.
A point of order.
I think, dear comrades,
that we are making mistakes here.
Although they may be not so
important, it seems to me
that the many comrades
who don't know Comrade Bartosiewicz
would have questions for him.
But if we put him on list,
we agree to everything,
Then it is enough for us to vote.
I, for example, don't know
Comrade Bartosiewicz
from the point of his social work.
I don't know how long
he's worked in the shipyard.
There was a question, how many years
has he worked in the shipyard,
because it needs to be asked.
So eventually I may know
on whom I'll be voting.
So perhaps I would like to...
I would like to answer
some of the questions.
So please, ask me them.
I am here, in the presidium, after all.
Regarding the shipyard:
I've worked here since 1960,
since 28 October.
In eight days I am finishing
11 years of work in the shipyard.
Thank you, Comrade Badowski.
I have a specific question
to put to the candidates.
So they should answer yes, or no.
Do they want to represent us, or not?
Specifically! Yes or no!
Don't swim around it or say nothing.
Tell us either yes or no.
First one candidate
and then the second one..
So Comrade Dopierała answers,
if he agrees or not.
I ask to be crossed out from the list.
Comrades, who on that issue please?
Comrade Pawlak.
-Comrades. It can't be
put that way: yes or no.
Comrades, if we choose a comrade,
it is an honor
to be a delegate for the Sixth Congress.
It is maybe the most
highly active reward
which a party member could ever get,
to be a representative in such forum
that will take place at the Congress.
And such attitude,
it is rather out of place.
And I believe,
that he should be put on the list!
- Comrade Linowski, please.
- Comrade Dopierała,
as an old activist, we know
each other after all, right?
I would say that it was
out of place, your statement.
So, if Comrade Łazowski
has expressed himself badly
and let's say capriciously,
then let's say,
that Comrade Łazowski
is not mature enough,
expressing himself way that...
If let's say we give a mandate
to Comrade Dopierała,
then I don't think we would discuss it.
And Dopierała insisted they
couldn't tell us that because
since Łazowski expressing himself badly,
I resign from mandate.
That's not true, Comrade Dopierała!
It must be said that what you
said at the beginning,
comrades here said
that if you are not here,
then we'll roll our sleeves up and
defend what you have gained!
Do you understand?
And I don't think
there should be any excuses here.
Let's say it this way:
I don't want to be ashamed, let's say.
You Comrade Dopierała, as I remember
you, you came from production.
You worked on production.
You were secretary and I believe
you should continue to be.
So I support the candidacy
of Comrade Dopierała
for, let's say, delegate
for the Congress of our party.
- So perhaps right away.
- Bring the comrades to Warsaw.
The Comrade is for representing
us accordingly each day.
- Comrade Dopierała, yes, or no?
- Yes.
I am supporting myself.
It is put correctly.
Political and organizational motions.
Sanction the existence of a workers'
self-government organization, workers
in the draft of the new constitution.
I hope we will discuss it.
Our statute must be worked
out at the Sixth Congress.
It must apply to everyone,
from top to bottom and vice versa.
It can't be as it was before.
Introduce a rule
of accounting party members,
in front of party organization
they belong to
regardless of the sanctions
applied by a superior unit,
in which the person concerned works.
It should be clearly committed
and consistently required
from the provincial authorities
to initiate a renewal
on every lower level.
In our opinion, the renewal of economic
and political life is too slow.
Most discussants scrutinized
the methods and forms of party training.
That it is outdated, dull,
that it is simply not
the need of our times.
We are of the opinion that
the working week should be shortened,
which would ensure better
regeneration of workers' strength.
Of course it must go hand in hand
with the expansion of recreational and
cultural facilities.
Verify impractical admission rules
for higher education,
where it is wrong, incomprehensible for us
to using the rubric of social background,
instead of being guided
solely by skills and knowledge.
Generally rebuild the government
structure and remuneration system
in a way that guarantees the livelihood
of a family by one working member,
which would enable wives to raise
children, run a household.
Extend maternity leave payable to
to one year for working mothers.
I announce:
Submitted candidates
received for delegates,
for delegates to
the Sixth Party Congress.
Comrade Bartoszewicz Ryszard - 51 votes.
Comrade Dopierała Mieczysław - 94 votes.
Comrade Dopierała Mieczysław is elected.
Arise, ye workers from your slumber,
Arise, ye prisoners of want.
For reason in revolt now thunders,
and at last ends the age of cant!
Away with all your superstitions,
Servile masses, arise, arise!
We'll change henceforth
the old tradition,
And spurn the dust to win the prize!
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