FORD MOTOR WORKS.
ENFORCING THE LIQUOR HAWS. THOUSANDS, OF WORKERS DISMISSED. NEW YORK. Sept, 11. Mr Henry Ford lias issued orders to 70,000 workmen employed in lis automobile works at Detroit, forbiddine them to use any intoxicating liquors, on pain of dismissal. “It «vi 1 1 cost a man bis job without excuse or appeal to have the odour of beer, wine or any intoxicating liquor on his lnped' or to have any of these intoxicants on bis person or in bis home.” . NEW YORK, Sept. ,1 Eighteen thousand men in one n : Ford’s plants, at Detroit, have laid off, and nearly £IOO.OOO wore instructed to turn in their tools tonight for an indefinite suspension. —N.Z. Newspapers, Sept. 18. These cables show how Prohibition is working—after three years —in America. Here is a law—Prohibition- ■ which after throe years has to depend for its enforcement upon threats of the “sack” from private employers! Why? Simply, because, wherever it has been tried, it has been proved that Prohibition does not prohibit! Vote continuance ! 50
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1922, Page 4
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172FORD MOTOR WORKS. Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1922, Page 4
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