POLAND-Promise of Change

September 13, 1980 POLAND Promise of Change?
THE strikes in Poland against high cost of living, decrease in real wages and denial of basic democratic rights have started a process the consequences of which will be far-reaching. Although similar strikes have taken place earlier in Poland, it is for the first time that a popular agitation of this magnitude has prominently demanded political reforms and democratic rights. This in itself is a culmination of a process which workers in the industrial town of Poznan