On 16th January 1980 in Gdańsk, Tadeusz Szczepański, activist of the Free Trade Unions of the Coast, collaborator of Lech Wałęsa and worker of Elektromontaż, was reported missing after celebrating his successful driving examination with friends.
The official newspaper of the Founding Committee of the Free Trade Unions of the Coast. The title of the newspaper referred to the “Worker” of the Polish Socialist Party, as issued by Józef Piłsudski
Stanisław Składanowski participated in the strike in the Gdańsk Shipyard and in the protests in August 1980 in the Coast, which he documented in photographs.
By making use of, inter alia, secret agents, officers of the Security Service worked to isolate activists in their communities—for example, through attempts to compromise them. The Security Service significantly controlled the activities of the unionists, which allowed it to make attempts to thwart their operations.
In other regions of the country, attempts were made to organise the Free Trade Unions.