FORD MOTOR WORKS.
ENFORCING THE LIQUOR LAWS. THOUSANDS OF WORKERS DISMISSED. NEW YORK, Sept., 11. Mr Henry Ford has' issued orders to 70,000 workmen employed in his automobile works at Detroit forbidding them to use any intoxicating liquors on pain of dismissal. “It will cost a man his job without excuse or appeal to have the odour of beer, wine, or any intoxicating liquor on his breath, or to have any of these intoxicants on his person, or in his home.” NEW YORK, Sept. 11. Eighteen thousand men in one of Ford’s plants, at Detroit, have been paid off, and nearly 100',000 were instructed to turn in their tools' tonight for an indefinite suspension. —N.2L Newspapers, Sept. 18-
These cables show how Prohibition is working—after three years—in America. Here is a law —Prohibition—which, after three years, has to depend for. its enforcemnet 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 Rstpration and National Continuance I*
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4488, 6 November 1922, Page 2
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173FORD MOTOR WORKS. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4488, 6 November 1922, Page 2
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