YEAR OF ISSUE: 1991
ISSUER: POCZTA HLS
REFERENCE: SOLID0207/0861
THESE EXIST ON THICK AND THINNER CHALKY PAPER. THIS AUCTION IS FOR THE THICKER VARIETY.
SOLIDARITY STAMPS WERE PRINTED ON WHATEVER PAPER WAS AVAILABLE AS BETWEEN 1982 AND 1990 EVERYTHING WAS SCARCE IN POLAND. THIS GIVES RISE TO VARIETIES WHICH ARE DISTINGUISHED BETWEEN BY THE DISCERNING SPECIALIST.
AS FAR AS I AM AWARE, BASED ON THE MATERIAL I HAVE PERSONALLY SEEN, THESE WERE ISSUED ON THICK AND ALSO THIN CHALKY TYPE PAPER.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE SCAN IS A STOCK SCAN. YOU WILL RECEIVE STAMPS OF A SIMILAR QUALITY
THIS PROPAGANDA STAMP SET WAS ISSUED BY THE POLISH UNDERGROUND SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT AS A DIVERSIFICATION STATEMENT AGAINST MARTIAL LAW WHICH HAD BEEN DECLARED BY THE COMMUNIST AUTHORITIES IN POLAND. IT IS A VERY RARE AND COLLECTABLE ITEM . THE UNDERGROUND MEMBERS WHO ISSUED THIS STAMP RISKED A LOT, BECAUSE IF CAUGHT THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN IMPRISONED WITHOUT TRIAL.
THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO OWN A UNIQUE PIECE OF HISTORY. IT IS A MUST FOR EVERY SERIOUS HISTORIAN AND COLLECTOR OF THIS PERIOD AND WILL MAKE AN INTERESTING ADDITION TO YOUR COLLECTION.
General Wojciech Jaruzelski announced the introduction of martial law in a speech first broadcast on radio and television at 6:00 am on December 13, 1981. In order to isolate members of the opposition (from the Solidarity movement), 52 internment centers were created. A total of 10,132 internment orders were issued against 9,736 people during the period of martial law.
Towarzystwo Szkoły Ludowej (TSL)
The Peoples' School Society (TSL) - an educational organization operating in the years 1891–1940 in Galicia, and then in the southern and eastern parts of the Second Polish Republic; The initiator of the creation of the society and its first president was Adam Asnyk.
Rise of the Society
According to Zwiercan-Witkowska's study, the TSL was established during the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Constitution of May 3 in 1891 in Galicia. In October 1890, a celebration committee chaired by Mieczysław Pawlikowski (editor of "Nowa Reforma") met in Kraków. At the meeting, Michał Danielak requested the establishment of an educational society following the example of the Czech Matica Školska and the German Schulverein.
The society's task was to defend Polish culture, mainly in the Polish borderlands. On April 29, 1891, a statutory commission was established, consisting of Ernest Adam, Lesław Boroński, Michał Danielak, Adam Doboszyński, Mieczysław Pawlikowski and Ludomir Benedyktowicz. The latter proposed the name Folk School Society; the slogan "through education to freedom" was also adopted.
The statute was approved by the ministry's rescript of January 21, 1892. According to the report by Kurier Lviv: 'The main goal of the Society is to help communes establish folk schools, by making one-off non-returnable donations or interest-free loans, and by giving prizes to zealous folk teachers; sending itinerant teachers among the rural people; establishing free reading rooms in villages and towns”.
On March 13, 1892, the first General Meeting of TSL elected the first Management Board of the organization. It was joined by: Ernest Adam, Adam Asnyk (president), Wojciech Biechoński, Lesław Boroński (secretary), Fr. Tadeusz Chromecki, Michał Danielak, Wincenty Jabłoński, Przemysław Kotarski, priest. Józef Kufel, Włodzimierz Lewicki, Józef Łokietek, Mieczysław Pawlikowski, Stanisław Paszkowski, Tadeusz Romanowicz, Jan Rotter, Antoni Ryszard, Jan Skirliński and August Sokołowski (vice president). The following people were elected to the Supervisory Board: Ernest Bandrowski, Adam Doboszyński, Michał Gołąb, Jan Harajewicz and Jan Albert Popper.
