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Lech Walesa born , charismatic leader of Solidarity, the independent trade union movement in Poland, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his valiant struggle to secure workers' rights through negotiation and peaceful means. Lech Walesa was born on September 29, , in the village of Popowo, located between Warsaw and Gdansk, the son of a private farmer and carpenter.

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He attended technical school in nearby Lipno and worked briefly as an electromechanic in Lochocin. After completing military service from to , he moved to Gdansk where he was employed as an electrical technician at the Lenin Shipyard. While there, Walesa was in the vanguard of trade union activists who sought to redress workers' grievances.

To gain objectives, he pursued negotiations and nonviolent resistance when dealing with government authorities. In December , as food shortages and drastic increases in food prices precipitated violent protest strikes in shipyards along the Baltic coast, Walesa was elected chair of the Strike Committee at the Lenin Shipyard. There, on January 15, , he was among those who negotiated workers' demands with First Secretary of the Communist Party Edward Gierek.

After an interim of political inactivity, Walesa was elected delegate to the shipyard Works' Council meeting in February , where he spoke out against the authorities for reneging on concessions agreed to in the negotiations. Dismissed from his job at the shipyard, he found work in May at a construction machinery enterprise. June strikes against increased food prices.