Labels:text | screenshot | rectangle | number | electronic device | font | computer OCR: BB ARTICLE The Grolier Electronic Encyclopedia Walesa, Lech HOT WORD ARTICLE {vah-wen'-sah, lek} Lech Walesa, b. Sept. 29, 1943, the leader of Poland's first independent trade union, Solidarity, was elected president of that nation on Dec. 9, 1990. An electrician who had lost several jobs for labor activism, Walesa became (1980) leader of the interfactory committee that coordinated strikes in support of the workers' economic and political demands. As Solidarity's leader, he moderated the union's demands and showed a ? PRINT OR SAVE GO BACK TOP MENU
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