Parti ouvrier unifié polonais
In 1950 he went to Warsaw in search of work. He was directed to the masonry brigade. He quickly became a shock worker. From the 1950s he was an active activist in trade unions. From 1968 he belonged to the Polish United Workers' Party. He was delegate for the VIII, IX and X Congress of the Polish United Workers' Party. In 1979, the Congress of Trade Unions elected him a member of the World Federation of Trade Unions.