PRICES AN ISSUE IN CEYLON —
COLOMBO, Ceylon, Jan. 27 -- The high cost of living has given rise to several recent important political developments here, ; A: peasant demonstration against high prices led by Mudiyanse Tennakoon of WNikawaeratiya was organized to go to Colombo to present a petition to the government,
The demonstration, a perfectly peaceful one, was forcibly broken up by the police who used tear gas,
In protest Tennakoon went on a six~day hunger strike without water, He gave up the fast last night.
In Borella yesterday a large meeting formally inaugurated a campaign of the United Left Front against high prices.
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The aim is a mammoth petition putting.forward the United Left Front demands on this question. Meetings and demonstrations are planned as the campaign develops.
Proponents of the United Left Front hope that the campaign -against high prices:will help provide a means of building unity between the. rural masses and. oity workers, |
SULTAN