Labor unrest spread to another major Polish industrial center today, and communist authorities, saying the ongoing strike threatened chaos, arrested dozens of opposition activists.
As steelworkers in the huge Lenin mill in Nowa Huta, outside Krakow, struck for a fourth day, workers in the steel and metalworking mills of Stalowa Wola in southeastern Poland began a sit-in strike this morning. Authorities immediately threatened to fire the striking workers and tonight, church sources in the town said, the plant was surrounded by militarized police units.
The confrontation in Stalowa Wola came as an agreement by officials not to use force against the more than 10,000 …
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