Word: lodz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet beef had not ended the meat shortage (TIME, Oct. 12), and last week, as the crisis got worse, Communist Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka and his ministers were trying every desperate trick. They convicted 101 official state slaughterers of black-marketing in the Warsaw area, arrested 88 "meat speculators" at Lodz. More ominously, they decreed that the country's still largely independent farmers (only 12% are collectivized) could no longer sell meat in public markets until the farmers first completed their compulsory deliveries (about 60-70% or more of their output) to the state...
...with this maneuver was that even in the industrial towns party members have become increasingly apathetic. Of the 20,000 Polish Communists whose party records include an official reprimand, only 5,000 have bothered to obtain the vindication that the party has offered them. In the largest factory in Lodz, no new candidate for party membership has been recruited for two years. And in the town of Ziebice, only 30 of 300 party members showed up at a meeting to choose a new party secretary-and none would take...
...toured Poland occasionally, and long after he became a U.S. citizen, the Poles continued to claim him as their own ("He is the best," said one writer, "so he is a Pole"). But during the war, the Germans killed the family he had left in the textile city of Lodz, and Rubinstein avoided Poland as well as Germany during his postwar European tours. When he finally decided he was ready to return to Poland, his concerts became immediate sellouts; 1,200 people turned up merely to hear him rehearse. Before he played a note at his final concert, the audience...
Women & Tear Gas. In Lodz (pronounced Woodge), 75 miles southwest of Warsaw, the early shift of streetcar workers reported for work one 3 a.m. last week, but no cars left the barns. Instead, before the day was over, 6,000 men and women employees were on a sitdown strike, demanding that their 800-zlotys monthly pay (enough to buy one pair of shoes) be increased 50%. The militia fired tear gas and wielded clubs. A worried Gomulka dispatched a trade union chief, a vice-minister and a security general from Warsaw, called out the troops to keep order, pressed...
Wyszynski will also probably ask the Vatican for appointment of a second cardinal-perhaps Bishop Klepacz of Lodz -thus restoring the traditional number of cardinals for Poland and strengthening his Catholic administration...