CONCERN FOR THE UNEMPLOYED.
(To the Editor.) ' Sir, —American passengers on the Tahiti were amused at the benevolent efforts of those who exploit humanity’s weakness for drink who declared in their posters that, if New Zealand went dry, 30,000 must suffer from unemployment. The same posters were used unsuccessfully in trying to keep America wet. Yet 45, and later 47, States out of 48 adopted the 18th Amendment. There came not unemployment, but the greatest prosperity our country has known. All industries gained from the revenue formerly going into saloon-keep-er’s pockets. For example, kiddies once barefooted were now shod. Why not ask those men, "Are you actually worried about our jobs or is it about your profits that these posters arc pasted?”—l am, etc., C. M. GOETHE. R.M.S. Tahiti, Sydney.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 October 1922, Page 8
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130CONCERN FOR THE UNEMPLOYED. Taranaki Daily News, 12 October 1922, Page 8
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