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Fabryka Broni

1976: The June Mutiny

On June 25, 1976 workers of the Zakłady Metalowe Predom–Łucznik (as the plant was known at the time) staged a strike to show their disapproval of the recent decision of the Communist government to raise the food prices severely. The work was interrupted in almost all shops of the plant, and thousands of workers took to the streets, along with their colleagues from other Radom plants, to stage protest under the district Communist Party headquarters. Riot police intervened, which resulted in much street-fighting, and the Party committee has been burned. The Central Committee of the Polish United Workers’ Party revoked the government decisions overnight, but The June Mutiny was to cost Radom dearly. Scores of arrested were brutally beaten by the police, then exemplary trails were staged with severe sentences. Other than the punishment for the individual participants, Radom was collectively punished by the Communist authorities, who withdrawn all centrally-financed investments and cut down subventions. Scores of employees involved in the June Mutiny were fired and blacklisted. Some of these were able to return to Łucznik o­nly after 1980, when Solidarity trade union intervened o­n their behalf.