Region Catering Rest Houses, Regional Capitals Ghana Black Star Line with almost fifteen ships, Takoradi and Tema Ghana Distilleries, Greater-Accra Region Ghana Shoe Factory Kumasi, Ashanti Region Ghana Jute Factory, Kumasi, Ashanti Region Tema Food Complex, Greater-Accra Region Infrastructure: Ghana Atomic Energy Commission Tema Harbour and Tema Township Akosombo Dam (Ghana paid half of the £70 million) Accra -Tema Motorway (originally meant to go through Kumasi to Paga) Accra International Airport -Refurbishment Peduasi Lodge for conferences Farmers Council Workers Brigade National Management and Productivity Institute New Army Headquarters in Ho, Sunyani, Bolgatanga, and Takoradi National institutions: Ghana Film Industries Accra Ghana Airways Corporation Ghana National Trading Corporation Cocoa Purchasing Company Bank of Ghana National Investment Banks Ghana Commercial Bank Agricultural Credit and Cooperative Bank (later, Agricultural Development Bank) The austerity budget and the 1961 workers strike In 1961 the CPP government introduced an austerity budget to counter declining world price of cocoa while maintaining planned capital expenditure on economic expansion and industrialisation, including Tema Harbour and the new township, new industries such as the steelworks, new housing, and new schools, among others. In response to increases in duty on consumer goods and the introduction of a compulsory saving scheme to quell rising inflation, the railways workers organized a strike to register their opposition to the austerity measures in the budget. Nkrumah was out of the country at the time, and a delegation of the cabinet sought a meeting with representatives of the Unions but the leaders of the strike refused to meet and the government declared a state of emergency in response to what was an illegal strike under the 1958 Industrial Relations Act. After this, many workers returned to work except in Sekondi –Takoradi and surrounding areas. As time wore on, it became clear that the union leadership had been infiltrated and come under the influence of the opposition United Party. Two leading members of the strike – Ishmaila Annan and Atta Bordoh – were executive members of the United Party in the Western region. Ishmaila Annan had been a member of the Moslem Association Party (before it became part of the U.P.) and was closely associated with the deported Amadu Baba, who orchestrated much of the NLM's violence in the run-up to independence. A week after the strike was declared, the executive of the opposition United Party met in Dr Danquah's House in Accra. Present at the meeting