Fertiliser Blues

shortages, meat was actually being exported. When the government announced plans to cut the meat ration by 20 per cent from August 1, a series of demonstrations were held all over the country. The march by children and women at Lodz on July 30, stoppage of traffic by workers in Watsaw with demonstrations in front ef parliament on August 3 and the protest strike by one million coal miners on August 5, were the most prominent of such actions.