AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOUR.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3142, 6 November 1922, Page 5

AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOUR.

The American Federation of Labour, representing 4.500,000 workers, expressed strong condemnation of Prohibition in its recent convent ion held at Denver. In the text of the Official Resolution regarding Prohibition it was pointed out that great dissatisfaction is manifest throughout the U. S. A. at the Prohibition Law: that many people were of the impression that this law would not exclude the nation's natural beverage, beer: that the law had brought about wholesale manufacture of illicit liquor which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of citizens, and the impairing of the sight of thousands of others: that these conditions had made the law vastly unpopular with the majority of the citizens. The great representative body therefore declared itself in favour of a modification of the law so as to permit the manufacture and sale of light wines and beer. It also resoived to do everything in its power to have these moifications carried into effect. Sane official Labour condemns Prohibition, so do reasonable folk of all classes. Vote Continuance!