Prices row markets

THE FRANCO government yesterday issued decree freezing restaurant and cafe prices in further attempt to look as if it is fighting inflation.

On November 3, the Council of Ministers imposed general price freeze on all main food products and set up special regional commissions, centred around the provincial Civil Governors.

Spanish housewives are not very impressed by the results achieved so far.

In Alicante, near Valencia, there have been many angry exhanges in the central market this week. There has been no fresh chicken or fish on sale, because of the price levels nixed Commission for prices. Executive Stallholders have just closed their stalls because they pay the wholesaler 53 pesetas a kilo and the price fixed for them is 52 bese as a kic The same is appeningwith fish prise mares about the inbver menck price-fixing schemes.

level, which means that they vary widely throughout country and some areas dre being •ebrivee or rems like fish and chicken which being sold in the provinces that offer the best prices.

Another point of conflict is the here very popular beaut the arbitrary decision not to fix which are very popular because of their cheapness-tomatoe! and tuna fish, for example.

The latest fraud is the Special Inspection-Christmas CamHeadquarters by the Food Supplies In each capital, In Sectors will price simplete shook complaints from suming paond• Food Supplies Headquarters has also bought an extra 6,000 tons of meat, mainly from Uruguay, counter-balance the tendency to increases' during the Christmas period.

This may be of help to those middle-class households which still afford the luxury of meat. rate hit