Unionist’s view
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LONDON, July 19. The leader of Britain’s most powerful trades union said today that British entry into the Common Market could lead to West Germany becoming a nuclear power, and he added, this would be “a very terrible danger for the British.”
“I’m very much afraid that if we go into the Market then' will be this development
... of British-French nuclear weapons,” Mr Jack Jones, general-secretary of the Transport and General Workers’ Union, said in a television interview.
“If that happens it will be almost impossible to exclude the Germans from participation.”
Mr Jones said that his union was opposed to British entry, but would not threaten strike-action as a deterrent. It was a political issue to be decided finally by Parliament, but he had hoped for a nation-wide referendum, or ja General Election on it. he I said.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32663, 20 July 1971, Page 13
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