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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 249, 15 July 1921, Page 6

A BARRIER TO LABOUR. Joe Duncan is fteci'etary of the Scottish Ferm Servants’ Union. He ha? had a lot of experience in political and industrial organisation amongst workers of all classes. Ho is an advocate of the policy that aims at the workers controlling the industries by which they creati wealth. He Bays: “Wo need in the work-ing-class movement, /above, everything, clear thinking and persistent effort. Sp long as the public house exists as it does to-day we are continually thwarted in our efforts to Heoure these things. The public house is one of the greatest barriers to better organisation of the workers. It wastes their time, fuddles their brains. Four drunken men at a trade union meeting can render it a waste of time to discuss anything serious. We,l do the linuor trade know thet the easiest wav to drown hec*'thy discontent is to keep a tankard under the workers nose. But any sensible moderate drinker will admit, that if he were prevented getting intoxicating liquor to-morrow lie would not be a penny worse in anything that mattere.” Those are some of the reasons why Joe Duncan, who used to advocate State ownership of the liquor traffic, urged the Scottish labour men in the 1920 poll to vote for No-license.-N.Z. Alliance Publicity. (!).—Advt.