House Wives Launch Meat PetitionThe group at work this afternoon addressing 50,000 envelopes enclosing petition forms to British Housewives. Each form has a space for 60 signatures.Eight Housewives, - and two men, - met in a Bayswater room today to launch a petition to flood the government with more than 3,000,000 protests against meat rationing and controls. February 18, 1951. (Photo by Paul Popper Ltd.).