Solidarity organizers in the city said the police had detained about 10 people.

Solidarity organizers who traveled with Mr. Walesa later quoted him as telling the miners: "Thank you for your fantastic struggle.

The authorities have declared the strikes illegal, denouncing their organizers as outside instigators and even terrorists, and detaining some Solidarity organizers.

In Poznan, in western Poland, Solidarity organizers said that workers struck the big Cegielski machine works, which manufactures turbines and marine engines.

Solidarity organizers said 18 of the union's top leaders had asked Mr. Walesa to convene the outlawed union's national council to discuss strategy.

Tonight's clandestine meeting with the Solidarity organizers had not gone well.

To ease the process, particularly for elderly voters, Solidarity organizers set up information stands near the entrances to the polling stations.

About 150 people attended, men and women from their 20's to their 60's, most of them Solidarity organizers, some simply parishioners.

The miners at Rudna urged the rehiring of Solidarity organizers dismissed for their union activities, and they called for the legalization of the union.

The remarks, in a crowded lecture hall of Warsaw University, appeared to be directed at more militant Solidarity organizers.