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Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Securitate" title="Securitate">Securitate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Army_of_the_Socialist_Republic_of_Romania" title="Army of the Socialist Republic of Romania">Army</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_of_Communist_Youth" title="Union of Communist Youth">Union of Communist Youth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_National_Assembly_(Socialist_Republic_of_Romania)" class="mw-redirect" title="Great National Assembly (Socialist Republic of Romania)">Great National Assembly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_Council_of_Romania" title="State Council of Romania">State Council</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patriotic_Guards_(Romania)" title="Patriotic Guards (Romania)">Patriotic Guards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Council_of_Women_(Romania)" title="National Council of Women (Romania)">National Council of Women</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pioneer_Organization" title="Pioneer Organization">Pioneers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C8%98tefan_Gheorghiu_Academy" title="Ștefan Gheorghiu Academy">Ștefan Gheorghiu Academy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romanian_Orthodox_Church_in_Communist_Romania" title="Romanian Orthodox Church in Communist Romania">Romanian Orthodox Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sc%C3%AEnteia" title="Scînteia">Scînteia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Democratic_Front_(Romania)" title="People's Democratic Front (Romania)">People's Democratic Front</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Front_of_Socialist_Unity_and_Democracy" title="Front of Socialist Unity and Democracy">Front of Socialist Unity and Democracy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comturist" title="Comturist">Comturist</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:pink;text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)">Leaders</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Constantin_Ion_Parhon" title="Constantin Ion Parhon">Constantin Ion Parhon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petru_Groza" title="Petru Groza">Petru Groza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ana_Pauker" title="Ana Pauker">Ana Pauker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ion_Gheorghe_Maurer" title="Ion Gheorghe Maurer">Ion Gheorghe Maurer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gheorghe_Gheorghiu-Dej" title="Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej">Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gheorghe_Apostol" title="Gheorghe Apostol">Gheorghe Apostol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chivu_Stoica" title="Chivu Stoica">Chivu Stoica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C8%99escu" title="Nicolae Ceaușescu">Nicolae Ceaușescu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manea_M%C4%83nescu" title="Manea Mănescu">Manea Mănescu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ilie_Verde%C8%9B" title="Ilie Verdeț">Ilie Verdeț</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elena_Ceau%C8%99escu" title="Elena Ceaușescu">Elena Ceaușescu</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list 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href="/wiki/Collectivization_in_Romania" title="Collectivization in Romania">Collectivization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nationalization_in_Romania" title="Nationalization in Romania">Nationalization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romanian_literacy_campaign" title="Romanian literacy campaign">Literacy campaigns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Five-Year_Plans_of_Romania" title="Five-Year Plans of Romania">Five-Year Plans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/De-Stalinization_in_Romania" title="De-Stalinization in Romania">De-Stalinization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Decree_770" title="Decree 770">Decree 770</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Systematization_(Romania)" title="Systematization (Romania)">Systematization</a> (<a href="/wiki/Romanian_rural_systematization_program" title="Romanian rural systematization program">Rural</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1980s_austerity_policy_in_Romania" title="1980s austerity policy in Romania">1980s austerity</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td 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prison">Sighet prison</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:pink;text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)">Protests and resistance</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Romanian_anti-communist_resistance_movement" title="Romanian anti-communist resistance movement">1940s–1950s resistance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bucharest_student_movement_of_1956" title="Bucharest student movement of 1956">Bucharest student movement of 1956</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dissent_in_Romania_under_Nicolae_Ceau%C8%99escu" title="Dissent in Romania under Nicolae Ceaușescu">Dissent under Nicolae Ceaușescu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jiu_Valley_miners%27_strike_of_1977" title="Jiu Valley miners' strike of 1977">Jiu Valley miners' strike of 1977</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">SLOMR</a></li> <li><a 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template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>SLOMR</b> (<a href="/wiki/Romanian_language" title="Romanian language">Romanian language</a> acronym for <b>Sindicatul Liber al Oamenilor Muncii din România</b> - <i>Free Trade Union of the Working People of Romania</i>) was a <a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania">Romanian</a> free <a href="/wiki/Trade_union" title="Trade union">trade union</a> founded, without prior preparation, in February 1979, as a means to oppose the control exercised by the ruling <a href="/wiki/Romanian_Communist_Party" title="Romanian Communist Party">Communist Party</a> during the country's <a href="/wiki/Socialist_Republic_of_Romania" title="Socialist Republic of Romania">communist period</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Initiated along the same lines as <a href="/wiki/Solidarity_(Polish_trade_union)" title="Solidarity (Polish trade union)">Solidarity</a>, created one year later in the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_Poland" class="mw-redirect" title="People's Republic of Poland">People's Republic of Poland</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> it grew to about 2,400 adherents within four weeks, and was dismantled by the authorities of <a href="/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C8%99escu" title="Nicolae Ceaușescu">Nicolae Ceaușescu</a>'s regime, coordinated by the <a href="/wiki/Securitate" title="Securitate">Securitate</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Popescu_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Popescu-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> over the next three months. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SLOMR&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In January 1979, a group of fifteen workers from the shipyards in the <a href="/wiki/Danube" title="Danube">Danube</a> port of <a href="/wiki/Drobeta-Turnu_Severin" title="Drobeta-Turnu Severin">Drobeta-Turnu Severin</a> approached <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ionel_Can%C4%83&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ionel Cană (page does not exist)">Ionel Cană</a>, a physician who had worked in <a href="/wiki/Olt_County" title="Olt County">Olt County</a> amongst workers and had recently moved to <a href="/wiki/Bucharest" title="Bucharest">Bucharest</a>; Cană, who had already helped workers draw up petitions complaining about labour conditions, agreed to the men's proposal to set up a union.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Creation">Creation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SLOMR&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Creation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The founding declaration, signed by 20 persons,<sup id="cite_ref-ILO_reports_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ILO_reports-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was broadcast by <a href="/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Bernard_(journalist)" title="Noël Bernard (journalist)">Noël Bernard</a> over <a href="/wiki/Radio_Free_Europe/Radio_Liberty" title="Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty">Radio Free Europe</a> on March 4, 1979.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The names of the 20 founder members of SLOMR, with their occupations and addresses, were appended to the text. The document stated that the organisation, legally established under Romanian law, was affiliated to the <a href="/wiki/International_Confederation_of_Free_Trade_Unions" title="International Confederation of Free Trade Unions">International Confederation of Free Trade Unions</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Sturmthal,_et_al.,_p.80_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sturmthal,_et_al.,_p.80-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Pointing at the declining work and living conditions and at the difficulties workers had in expressing themselves freely and defend their interests, the declaration indicated that the new labour organization was not backed by any political force, and that its objects were to ensure justice in the social and labour areas.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The intention of the new trade union was to enter the struggle against <a href="/wiki/Unemployment" title="Unemployment">unemployment</a>, for better working conditions, for <a href="/wiki/Occupational_safety_and_health" title="Occupational safety and health">safety and health</a> in the factories, for the revision of the <a href="/wiki/Living_wage" title="Living wage">wage system</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Pension" title="Pension">pension</a> system, for the reduction of the <a href="/wiki/Working_time" title="Working time">weekly work period</a> and the suppression of unpaid <a href="/wiki/Overtime" title="Overtime">overtime</a>, etc. The new union, insisting on the legality of the steps it had taken, requested a frank dialogue with the authorities for the settlement of these claims.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Soon, about 2,400 of workers from various localities such as Bucharest, <a href="/wiki/Ploie%C8%99ti" title="Ploiești">Ploiești</a>, <a href="/wiki/Constan%C8%9Ba" title="Constanța">Constanța</a>, <a href="/wiki/T%C3%A2rgu_Mure%C5%9F" class="mw-redirect" title="Târgu Mureş">Târgu Mureş</a> and <a href="/wiki/Timi%C8%99oara" title="Timișoara">Timișoara</a> joined the new union,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which also added to its programme more general claims such as freedom for all workers, including peasants, to change their place of work, the right to a decent wage for peasants and the right to freely sell their products and the suppression of terror and internment in psychiatric hospitals of those who demanded that their rights be respected. The dissident <a href="/wiki/Romanian_Orthodox_Church" title="Romanian Orthodox Church">Romanian Orthodox Church</a> priest <a href="/wiki/Gheorghe_Calciu-Dumitreasa" title="Gheorghe Calciu-Dumitreasa">Gheorghe Calciu-Dumitreasa</a> offered to be a spiritual adviser.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The new trade union was also supported by the writer and dissident <a href="/wiki/Paul_Goma" title="Paul Goma">Paul Goma</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Popescu_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Popescu-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An additional manifesto calling for the legalization of unofficial trade unions and observance of the right to free association was also released. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Repression">Repression</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SLOMR&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Repression"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The SLOMR's establishment and the issue of its constituent statement were almost immediately followed by a wave of repression against the body and its members — it included massive arrests, <a href="/wiki/Involuntary_commitment" title="Involuntary commitment">involuntary commitment</a> in psychiatric hospitals, exile, systematic harassment, beatings, as well as a summary trial and prison sentence passed on the SLOMR founder and other leading members.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thus, the 20 founders have been arrested and sentenced to prison, Ion Cană being condemned to a 7 years term for "disseminating <a href="/wiki/Fascism" title="Fascism">fascist</a> propaganda".<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another trade union leader, Gheorghe Brașoveanu, was confined to a psychiatric institution while the prominent opponent <a href="/wiki/Vasile_Paraschiv" title="Vasile Paraschiv">Vasile Paraschiv</a> underwent harsh psychiatric treatment.<sup id="cite_ref-Sturmthal,_p.80_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sturmthal,_p.80-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In April the SLOMR, in an <a href="/wiki/Open_letter" title="Open letter">open letter</a> to Ceaușescu, protested against the arrest of its members, among them Cană and Brașoveanu (the two were eventually released in 1980).<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cană's successor as chairman, Nicolae Dascălu, was sentenced in June to 18 months in prison for allegedly passing state secrets to <a href="/wiki/Amnesty_International" title="Amnesty International">Amnesty International</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Timi%C8%99oara" title="Timișoara">Timișoara</a> Carl Gibson, Erwin Ludwig, Prof. Dr. Fenelon Sacerdoțeanu and other 20 persons formed — after personal talks with Dascălu and other dissidents from Bucharest — the regional SLOMR of Timișoara. Gibson and Ludwig were arrested on April 4, accused of having created an "<a href="/wiki/Anarchism" title="Anarchism">anarchistic</a> organisation" and sentenced to six months in prison.<sup id="cite_ref-ILO_reports_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ILO_reports-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A further 153 leaders of the union, among them Virgil Chender from <a href="/wiki/Sighi%C8%99oara" title="Sighișoara">Sighișoara</a>, were arrested on charges of "<a href="/wiki/Parasitism_(social_offense)" class="mw-redirect" title="Parasitism (social offense)">parasitism</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/Hooliganism" title="Hooliganism">hooliganism</a>", and placed under <a href="/wiki/House_arrest" title="House arrest">house arrest</a>, interned in psychiatric hospitals, deported, imprisoned or expelled from the country after serving their sentences.<sup id="cite_ref-Sturmthal,_p.80_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sturmthal,_p.80-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Father Calciu-Dumitreasa was sentenced to ten years in prison.<sup id="cite_ref-Sturmthal,_et_al.,_p.80_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sturmthal,_et_al.,_p.80-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A number of trade unionists were also obliged to sign statements disclaiming the existence of the SLOMR.<sup id="cite_ref-ILO_reports_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ILO_reports-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the same time, the authorities launched a campaign of slander and harsh threats designed to destroy the union. After he arrived in <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a>, Gibson became the speaker of the SLOMR in the <a href="/wiki/Western_world" title="Western world">West</a>. Together with a group of Romanian dissidents from <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a> and <a href="/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland">Switzerland</a>, he informed the <a href="/wiki/World_Confederation_of_Labour" title="World Confederation of Labour">World Confederation of Labour</a> in <a href="/wiki/Brussels" title="Brussels">Brussels</a> and the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a>' <a href="/wiki/International_Labour_Organization" title="International Labour Organization">International Labour Organization</a> about the free trade union movement in Romania and about the human rights violations. The support group was able to convince both organisations to post a complaint against the regime in Bucharest.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the initial arrest of the leaders of the union, others took over the task of organising the union but a month later they were arrested as well and the remainder were subjected to permanent harassment.<sup id="cite_ref-ILO_reports_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ILO_reports-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a last and successful attempt to dismantle the entire organization, in June several hundred union members were arrested throughout the country at the same time.<sup id="cite_ref-ILO_reports_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ILO_reports-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The communist Romanian regime alleged not to have any knowledge of the new union.<sup id="cite_ref-ILO_reports_5-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ILO_reports-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SLOMR&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ilieșu; ILO reports</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Frunză, p.526; Popescu</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Popescu-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Popescu_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Popescu_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Popescu</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Deletant, <i>Ceaușescu...</i>, p.100, <i>Occidentul...</i>; Frunză, p.526; Popescu</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ILO_reports-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ILO_reports_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ILO_reports_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ILO_reports_5-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ILO_reports_5-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ILO_reports_5-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ILO_reports_5-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">ILO reports</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Deletant, <i>Occidentul. ..</i>; Popescu; Sturmthal, <i>et al.</i>, p.80</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Sturmthal,_et_al.,_p.80-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Sturmthal,_et_al.,_p.80_7-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Sturmthal,_et_al.,_p.80_7-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Sturmthal, <i>et al.</i>, p.80</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Frunză, p.526</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Frunză, p.526; ILO reports; Popescu</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Deletant, <i>Ceaușescu. ..</i>, p.100, <i>Occidentul. ..</i>; Sturmthal, <i>et al.</i>, p.80</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Deletant, <i>Ceaușescu. ..</i>, p.100; Sturmthal, <i>et al.</i>, p.80</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ilieșu; ILO reports; Sturmthal, <i>et al.</i>, p.80</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">ILO reports; Popescu; Sturmthal, <i>et al.</i>, p.80</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Sturmthal,_p.80-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Sturmthal,_p.80_14-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Sturmthal,_p.80_14-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">ILO reports; Sturmthal, <i>et al.</i>, p.80</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Deletant, <i>Ceaușescu...</i>, p.100; ILO reports</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Deletant, <i>Ceaușescu...</i>, p.100</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Frank; ILO reports</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SLOMR&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Reports <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070805203255/http://webfusion.ilo.org/public/db/standards/normes/libsynd/LSGetParasByCase.cfm?hdroff=1&FILE=1066&PARA=3592">nr.218/1982</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070804151847/http://webfusion.ilo.org/public/db/standards/normes/libsynd/LSGetParasByCase.cfm?PARA=3515&FILE=1066&hdroff=1&DISPLAY=#top">222/1983</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070806093250/http://webfusion.ilo.org/public/db/standards/normes/libsynd/LSGetParasByCase.cfm?hdroff=1&FILE=1066&PARA=3198">233/1984</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070804151847/http://webfusion.ilo.org/public/db/standards/normes/libsynd/LSGetParasByCase.cfm?hdroff=1&file=1066&PARA=2657">236/1984</a> of the <a href="/wiki/International_Labour_Organization" title="International Labour Organization">International Labour Organization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dennis_Deletant" title="Dennis Deletant">Dennis Deletant</a>, <i>Ceaușescu and the Securitate</i>, <a href="/wiki/M._E._Sharpe" title="M. E. Sharpe">M. E. Sharpe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Armonk,_New_York" title="Armonk, New York">Armonk, New York</a>, 1995; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://destinatii.liternet.ro/destinatii.php?art=157"><i>Occidentul și disidența din România sub regimul lui Ceaușescu</i> ("The West and Romanian Dissidence Under the Ceaușescu Regime")</a></li> <li>Nicolette Frank, "La Roumanie en accusation avant son congrès syndical", in <i><a href="/wiki/La_Libre_Belgique" title="La Libre Belgique">La Libre Belgique</a></i>, from 2. April 1981.</li> <li>Victor Frunză, <i>Istoria stalinismului în România</i> ("History of Stalinism in Romania"), <a href="/wiki/Humanitas_publishing_house" class="mw-redirect" title="Humanitas publishing house">Humanitas</a>, Bucharest, 1990</li> <li><span class="languageicon">(in Romanian)</span> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sorin_Ilie%C8%99iu&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sorin Ilieșiu (page does not exist)">Sorin Ilieșiu</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorin_Ilie%C8%99iu" class="extiw" title="ro:Sorin Ilieșiu">ro</a>]</span>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070223230001/http://gds.ong.ro/raport.htm"><i>Raport pentru condamnarea regimului politic comunist ca nelegitim și criminal</i> (<i>Report Regarding the Condemnation of the Communist Regime as Illegitimate and Criminal</i>), October 2005</a> (at the <a href="/wiki/Group_for_Social_Dialogue" title="Group for Social Dialogue">Group for Social Dialogue</a> site)</li> <li><span class="languageicon">(in Romanian)</span> Andrei Luca Popescu, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cotidianul.ro/index.php?id=43&art=8640&cHash=9935c19d90">"Un sindicat în ciuda lui Ceaușescu" ("A Union Despite Ceaușescu")</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/Cotidianul" title="Cotidianul">Cotidianul</a></i>, November 17, 2006</li> <li>Adolph Sturmthal, Alexander J. Motyl, Adrian Karatnycky, <i>Worker's Rights, East and West</i>, <a href="/wiki/Transaction_Publishers" title="Transaction Publishers">Transaction Publishers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Piscataway_Township,_New_Jersey" class="mw-redirect" title="Piscataway Township, New Jersey">Piscataway</a>, 1980</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SLOMR&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Carl Gibson, <ul><li>"Un pas spre libertate. Sindicatul liber al oamenilor muncii din R.S. România", in <i>Presa Libera Română</i>, March 1, 1981</li> <li>"Widerstandsbewegungen gegen die Ceausescu-Diktatur", in <i><a href="/wiki/Frankfurter_Allgemeine_Zeitung" title="Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung">Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung</a></i>, November 15, 1988</li></ul></li> <li>Mariana Hausleitner, "Politischer Widerstand in Rumänien vor 1989", in <i>Halbjahresschrift für süosteuropäische Geschichte, Literatur und Politik</i> (special edition: "Opposition und Repression im Realsozialismus"), <a href="/wiki/Dinklage" title="Dinklage">Dinklage</a>, 1996</li> <li>Ion Solacolu, a short history of the SLOMR movement (with an interview with Carl Gibson), in <i>Dialog</i>, March 1989 (special issue), published by the Democratic Circle of Romanians in Germany. Includes the text of the SLOMR constitution as written down by Ionel Cană in March 1979.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SLOMR&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070707062045/http://www.memorialsighet.ro/en/dezbateri_mese_rotunde.asp?id=34"><i>A quarter of a century since the SLOMR</i></a> at the <a href="/wiki/Sighet_Prison" title="Sighet Prison">Sighet Memorial</a> site</li> <li><span class="languageicon">(in Romanian)</span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070313203830/http://www.rferl.org/listen/ondemand/bd/ro/default.asp">News program archive</a> at <a href="/wiki/Radio_Free_Europe/Radio_Liberty" title="Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty">Radio Free Europe</a> Romanian edition; February 27, 2007 edition features <a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Totok&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Totok (page does not exist)">William Totok</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Totok" class="extiw" title="ro:William Totok">ro</a>]</span>'s interview with Carl Gibson on the Timișoara SLOMR and its legacy.</li></ul>    </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?useformat=desktop&type=1x1&usesul3=0" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;"></noscript> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SLOMR&oldid=1024610351">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SLOMR&oldid=1024610351</a>"</div></div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="/wiki/Help:Category" title="Help:Category">Categories</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:1979_establishments_in_Romania" title="Category:1979 establishments in Romania">1979 establishments in Romania</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:1979_disestablishments_in_Romania" title="Category:1979 disestablishments in Romania">1979 disestablishments in Romania</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Drobeta-Turnu_Severin" title="Category:Drobeta-Turnu Severin">Drobeta-Turnu Severin</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Socialist_Republic_of_Romania" title="Category:Socialist Republic of Romania">Socialist Republic of Romania</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:History_of_Bucharest" title="Category:History of Bucharest">History of Bucharest</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:International_Confederation_of_Free_Trade_Unions" title="Category:International Confederation of Free Trade Unions">International Confederation of Free Trade Unions</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Political_repression_in_Romania" title="Category:Political repression in Romania">Political repression in Romania</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Trade_unions_in_Romania" title="Category:Trade unions in Romania">Trade unions in Romania</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Trade_unions_established_in_1979" title="Category:Trade unions established in 1979">Trade unions established in 1979</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Trade_unions_disestablished_in_1979" title="Category:Trade unions disestablished in 1979">Trade unions disestablished in 1979</a></li></ul></div><div id="mw-hidden-catlinks" class="mw-hidden-catlinks mw-hidden-cats-hidden">Hidden categories: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Infoboxes_without_native_name_language_parameter" title="Category:Infoboxes without native name language parameter">Infoboxes without native name language parameter</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Articles_with_Romanian-language_sources_(ro)" title="Category:Articles with Romanian-language sources (ro)">Articles with Romanian-language sources (ro)</a></li></ul></div></div> </div> </main> </div> <div class="mw-footer-container"> <footer id="footer" class="mw-footer" > <ul id="footer-info"> <li id="footer-info-lastmod"> This page was last edited on 23 May 2021, at 05:13<span class="anonymous-show"> (UTC)</span>.</li> <li id="footer-info-copyright">Text is available under the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_4.0_International_License" title="Wikipedia:Text of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License</a>; additional terms may apply. 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