Strike alert declared in Poland's Lodz area

By WITH ANALYSIS FROM MONITOR CORRESPONDENTS AROUND THE WORLD; EDITED BY HILARY DEVRIES

March 5, 1981

Warsaw

Local Solidarity trade union officials declared a strike alert in the major industrial region of Lodz Wednesday, a move which could torpedo the 90-day strike truce requested by Prime Minister Wojciech Jaruzelski. the Lodz branch of Solidarity said it ordered the strike alert as a last resort after trying for a month to get authorities to reinstate five wo rkers fired from an Interior Ministry hospital.