SAM GOMPERS SAYS PROHIBITION “STUPENDOUS FAILURE"
This is what this famous Labor leader, the President of the American Federation of Labor, says of Prohibition:— • “We are opposed to legal Prohibition of drinking, because we do not want the Government to say to us_: ‘ You shall not drink/ Wo do not believe that this is the right way, or even a practical way, in which temperance reform shall be brought about. No one is more firmly convinced of the necessity for temperance as a requisite of efficiency than working men; but they are opposed to tho Prohibition movement because it has been such a stupendous failure everywhere it has been tried.” Vote Continuance.—[Advt.j
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Evening Star, Issue 18135, 27 November 1922, Page 10
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112SAM GOMPERS SAYS PROHIBITION “STUPENDOUS FAILURE" Evening Star, Issue 18135, 27 November 1922, Page 10
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