AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOUR.
The American Federation of Labour, representing 4,500,00’0. workers, expressed strong condemnation of Prohibition in its recen.t convention held at Denver. In the text of the Official Resolution regarding Prohibition it was pointed out that great dissatisfaction is manifest throughout the U.S.A, at the Prohibition Law; that many people were of the impression that this law would not exclude the nation’s national beverage, beer; that the law had brought about wholesale manufacture of illicit liquor, which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of citizens, and the impairing of the sight of thousands of others; that these conditions had made the law vastly unpopular with the majority fo citizens; This great representative body therefore declared itself, in favour of a modification of the law so as to permit the manufacture and sale of light wines and beer. It also resolved to do everything in its power to have these modifications carried into effect. Sane official Labour condemns Prohibition ; so do reasonable folk of all classes. Vote Restoration and national Continuance.*
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HPGAZ19221201.2.15
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4498, 1 December 1922, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
172AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOUR. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4498, 1 December 1922, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hauraki Plains Gazette. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in