Food prices will rocket - E.E.C. chiefs

Workers Press no. 7, 7 October 1969 · scan page 2

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THE TOP executive body of the European Comm Market gave a stifi warning at the end of last week tl food prices will rocket if Britain enters.

Reporting on membership applications from Britain, Norway, Denmark and Ireland, the Market's Commission said prices for some products would rise steeply because Britain would have to guarantee a minimum price to its farmers.

At present the government subsidizes farmers and prices are also kept down by cheap imports from Australia, Canada and New Zealand.

The report states that 'the sor the extental et Common Market's agricultural policy in question.

Foot bill

"The problem of adjustment new members to this sition' In other words, the bill for Common Market entrywhich will bring advantages to certain sections of British big business-will be footed by. the working class as a steeply increased cost of living.

Subservience

Wilson's eagerness for entry even on these terms is a further indication of his subservience to big business and his complete contempt for the problems of the working class.

The Common Market is an association of European capitalists who have banded together the better to plunder the workers of their own countries and the rest of the They agree only about one thing: the working class must come under the hammer.

To European workers we pose the alternative: the smashing of the Common Market by revolutionary means and the building of a socialist United States of Europe based on real mutual assistance.