WAR DRUNKENNESS.
RESTRICTION'S DO GOOD. SOME WORKERS REBELLIOUS. LONDON.. November 22. (Received November 23. at 11.55 a.m.) The -report of tho Central Board controlling the liquor traffic shows that the number of prosecutions for drunkenness dropped 40 per cent, in the first four weeks of the restrictions as compared with those, for the preceding month. A meeting of 300 delegates from seven unions, including the Railwaymen's Union, demanded the withdrawal of the restriction in London on the hours for the sale of liquor. The meetir.<r hinted that the men would down tools if the restrictions were enforced. Mr Lloyd George, -speaking in the House of Commons, said that where the liquor restrictions had been introduced there had been an appreciable diminution in drunkenness and a considerable reduction in the amount of liquor consumed, besides which more, effective work had been performed.
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Evening Star, Issue 15968, 23 November 1915, Page 4
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