Crisis in Poland following labor strikes and formation of the Polish trade union Solidarity. Fall of communist party Chief Edward Gierek and his replacement by Stanislaw Kania. Gierek during a television address. Kania during a Parliament Session address. Gierek and Kania arrive in a black Mercedes W123 car and walk inside a building.
Crisis in Poland around time of Martial Law by its Military Government. Polish trade union Solidarity leader Lech Walesa enters a building with other solidarity leaders. Holy cards with images of the Polish Black Madonna of Częstochowa (Our Lady of Częstochowa) are distributed to civilians lined outside the building. Walesa during meeting with a priest. Civilians buy eatables from a shop in the market. Solidarity posters at the shop.
Crisis in Poland before the imposition of Martial Law by its Military Government. Polish trade union Solidarity leader Lech Walesa enters a building with other solidarity leaders. A large crowd assembled on both the sides of the road. Solidarity leaders lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Warsaw (plac Marszałka Józefa Piłsudskiego 1-3, 00-078 Warszawa, Poland). Press photographers take photos.
Crisis in Poland after the imposition of Martial Law by its Military Government. Roman Catholic priests assembled at Monument to the Victims of June 1956 (Święty Marcin, 61-001 Poznań, Poland) in Poznan, Poland to pay homage to those died during the strikes and protest. A priest performs ceremonies at the venue. Polish trade union Solidarity leader Lech Walesa and others at the venue. The priest reads prayers standing near the memorial at the venue.
U.S. First Lady Patricia Nixon as a public figure and as a companion of President Richard Nixon. Pat Nixon with her family watches a session of U.S. Congress in process (A State of the Union address). Nixon daughters, Julie and Tricia sitting in the stands watch the proceedings of the Congress. She walks on a beach with her husband President Richard Nixon.
Westland Mine coal mine workers, wearing helmets with lights, are gathered in a room as they listen to a radio news broadcast in a local office of the Pittsburgh Coal Company, in Washington County, Pennsylvania. On December 7, 1946, United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis called an end to the labor strike by 400,000 coal miners that he had called on November 20, 1946. Maps of Westland mines No. 1 and 2 are among many that line the walls of the office. The mine workers look at a notice of the Government takeover ordered by the Secretary of the Interior, and a notice to their union, The United Mine Workers of America. Coal miners check their personal equipment in preparation for entering mines, with the strike now ended.
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