Today, 45 years ago, on August 14, 1980 (Lunar Calendar, July 4, 1980), the strike of the Polish workers. 17,000 workers occupied the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk since 1976, the economic situation in Poland has deteriorated, and in July 1980, the government decided to raise the price of meat and other foods by means of a bill, causing the workers to strike and the workers in Lublin to strike first, followed by the strike committees in Warsaw, Silesia and Rhodes. The government promised to raise their wages, and the situation has been mitigated. On August 14, the strike committee of the government of Gdansk, Gdynia, Sobotsk and Chelyabinsk, and other local workers, went on to strike again, developing into a national strike of the workers. During the str