LIQUOR AND LABOR.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 23 November 1917, Page 1

LIQUOR AND LABOR.

_ 'Distillers anil brewers in the United States insist: that- they are the friends of Labor, and they are just as insistent that Prohibition always means lower wages and less -work. What does Uncle Sara say on the subject in his latest census figures? In 10 years in Prohibition States wages paid to labor increased by 103 per cent. In near-Prohibition States—that is to say, in States in whioh 50 per cent, or more of the population was under Pxoßibition—the. increase wns 7 per cent. In partially licensed States—that is to say. in States in which "'•'"e than 25 per cent, but less than 50 per cent, of the population was under Prohihi—the increase was. 75-per cent., -while in licensed States in which less than 25 per i"»". of the population was trader Prohibithe increase in wages was but 61 pei cent. In the face of these authoritative figures, the American ' Times' asks: -Hon cac any Labor man, or friend of Labor, con W;nl that the making of liquor gives th< workers » sqnaro deal ? r. *