WATERSIDERS AND “TEETOTAL FANATICS.”
A manifesto issued by the Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Workers’ Union of Liverpool during the war runs as follows:
“Living as we are in the day of rapacious, ruthless war, there never was such an opportunity for the unscrupulous zealot' to use a malignant and sinister influence. While the working classes have given their lives by the j thousands, and their every home is pouring out its blood an'd treasure, the Hun Siigginses. do their deadly Work. One would have thought that out of a sense of gratitude they would evince some charity of opinion and respect for the working classes. The teetotal fanatics have done, and are doing, their worst to belittle, to libel, to insult the working classes.” The foregoing are among the chief reasons why sane Labour in all parts of the Globe 'condemn Prohibition. Vote Continuance. Strike out the Bottom Lines. 73
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Shannon News, 21 November 1922, Page 2
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151WATERSIDERS AND “TEETOTAL FANATICS.” Shannon News, 21 November 1922, Page 2
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