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Show POPULAR DISSATISFACTION STRONG. LONDON. Thursday. Jon. 17. Popular Pop-ular dissatisfaction with the food distribution dis-tribution which is very strong in the industrial districts, will be forcibly expressed January 26 at Manchester when, according to a decision just reached, a hundred thousand workers in the Manchester engineering shops will cease work for a day with the object of protesting against the present pres-ent distribution of food and demanding demand-ing a general rationing order. The engineers are supported by the Manchester and Salford Labour Council Coun-cil and similar demonstrations aro to be held simultaneously in Salford, Eccles. Alttrincham and Stretford. According Ac-cording to the leaders of the engineers there is deep dissatisfaction and suspicion sus-picion among the men who believe that the difficulties are due less to short- age of food than to unequal distribution. distribu-tion. They cite instances of the men having hav-ing to start work in the morning without with-out food, owing to their inability to their wives to obtain it the preceding day. The feeling is insistent that an immediate compulsory rationing system sys-tem Is needed applicable alike to rich and poor. oo |