POLAND SOLIDARITY PETITION IN FRANCE Below is the text of a petition that has begun to be circulated in France. If has already been signed by F. Chatelet, M.F. Kahn, J. Marie Vincent, Dominique and S.T. Desanti, Maurice Nadeau, Maxime Le Foresfier, Maxime Rodinson, and A. Krivine. Three months after the wave of strikes and demonstrotions that occurred in Poland after the sudden announcement of a large increase in the prices of food products, a severe repression continues to be imposed against workers whose only crime was to have tried to defend their standard of living by going on strike. There have been many trials - or least a hundred guilty verdicts have been listed, although the Polish authorities admit only fifty-three - and some of the sentences have gone as high as ten year in prison. But how many still remain in prison after suffering repeated police violence, without even knowing the charges against them nor how long they will have to remain? Thirteen Polish intellectuals have oddressed themselves "to all those who have taken up the defense of the persecuted in Chile, Spain, Czechoslovakia, and the USSR, to all those who solidarize with the struggle of the workers of the entire world for the liberation of labor. " Recently, a support committee for the workers victimized by repression following the events of June 25, 1976, was formed in Poland itself. The members of this committee, in fact all those who have manifested their solidarity with the victims, risk paying a high price for their courage through the continuous harassment of the regime and through the loss of their jobs. We ask the Polish authorities to immediately release all those who have been imprisoned in the wake of the events of June 25, 1976, and we demand:
*The rehiring of all those removed from their jobs, with no loss in wages or job classification.
*The halt to all administrative and judicial harassment and also a halt to police brutality against the intellectuals who have manifested their solidarity with those imprisoned. 12
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