THE PROHIBITION POLL.
During the past year steamers have been held up over and over again because the Bremen were absent on shore. The evidence has always been that they were | not exactly at a V.M.C.A. conference! i Three are hundreds of sober, decent liremen who want to stay on the job and earn money, but they can't even get on *i,„ ;.,i, _,',-,, = _ ».„.'.;,, ;.,,K, ;.i,,0i0 „-„
the job because certain individuals are licensed to sell stuff that keeps their mates off the job. And when tbey are off their job they are keeping you off your job, Mr. Voter, and many other working men off their jobs. Vie close the bars—you nnd 1, Mr. Voter —then the steamers will get away on schedule, and there will not be so much waste time added to the freight charges and falling | back on the consumer in added costs. The
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 69, 21 March 1919, Page 8
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146THE PROHIBITION POLL. Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 69, 21 March 1919, Page 8
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