August 15, 1980

To strike joins Shipyard. Paris Commune in Gdynia, which is headed by Andrew Wheeler - fitter employed at that plant. Start of the transport strike in Gdansk. Ordinary people, not having anything against the strike (saw him as the then opposition to the regime), podwozili people waiting because of the strike at the stops. Telephone communication is blocked from the rest of the country.

August 16, 1980

Directorate of the Gdansk shipyard, after talking with the delegates of the strikers, partly agrees to process your request shipbuilders. Content with the increase of 1.5 thousand. Strike Committee decided to end the strike. Lech Walesa at the request of the other striking plants announced a solidarity strike. Henry Krivonos, Ewa Osowska, Alina Pienkowska and Anna Walentynowicz stop outgoing shipbuilders, and some of them leave the factory. In the evening, after consultations with delegations from 21 other plants, is being appointed to the Inter-Enterprise Strike Committee (MKS). Under the leadership of Stanislaw Kania set up a coordination team for the authorities to eliminate strikes. Staff was appointed to manage the operation Summer 1980, aimed at ensuring security, law and order in the country.