AMERICAN LIQUOR LAW
LABOR WANTS MODIFICATION.
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright
WASHINGTON, January 15.
A. telegram from Cincina-tii stales that, following conferences with the Executive Board ,of tho Brewery Workers’ International Union, Mr Gompers announced that Labor will start a concerted drive for n modification of tho Prohibition la.w and a return to wino and beer of a light alcoholic content. Ho declared that this would promote temperance, and would provide an. antidote to -strong drink. A Jersey City message says that three men dropped dead before a bar a moment after taking a drink of bad liquor. —A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18175, 16 January 1923, Page 4
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100AMERICAN LIQUOR LAW Evening Star, Issue 18175, 16 January 1923, Page 4
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