Sixth Day

Abstract

[9 a.m. start. Onyszkiewicz reports the reaction of the Polish mass media, after a day’s silence, to the Address to the Working People of Eastern Europe. TASS claims that 89 per cent of delegates are paid Solidarity functionaries, 120 support KOR and 70 the KPN are refuted. Only about 220 delegates are in post functionaries. A mass of agenda and procedural matters are dealt with first. The issues of the ban on combining functions, the election of KK members (variants I and IV carried over from the previous day) and the principles for electing the KK vice-chairmen are to be discussed. It is proposed that a representative of the Statute Committee (S. Krukowski) should chair the debate on the Section IV Statute amendments. Heated protests are raised against this and the renewed discussion of already accepted motions. This confused procedural bickering leads an agitated Wałȩsa to make an unprepared intervention. The text below is unclear in places. A revealing comparison is the smooth threeline summary in TS, No. 25, p. 6.]