The spelling of the organization in Polish is Solidarność, which arrived on August 31, 1980. The Communist authority in the country weren‟t pleased with the Church in Poland and certainly not with Pope John Paul II, the first Polish pope. Even before being named pope, Karol Wojtyla wrote a poem that Jerzy quoted about the worker. It asked, what makes you think that man can tip the balance on the scales of the world? The Polish Union, Solidarity, answered the question, insisting man could, provided there was spiritual guidance. At first, Solidarity had a membership of about ten million and would only grow larger as the Church and the people all embraced it. In the early twenty-first century, membership still numbered in the hundreds of thousands. Needless to say, this activism in the 1980s didn’t sit well with the commies.