PROHIBITION

Evening Star, Issue 19221, 12 April 1926, Page 5

PROHIBITION

AMERICAN SENATE'S INOUIRY EVIDENCE OF LABOH LEADERS MO DH' IC A TlO N SUPP 0R T E)). Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright WASH INC!TON, April 9. Mr William Roberts, who was personally repic-wiiting Mr William Green (president of the American Fedora inn of Labor), testilied belore the Senate’s Prohibition impjiry. He said that the Koines ni I lie people were home turned into breweries ami di.-i illenes, lunung out dangerous roiieoeiinns, winclt won!, l ruin the health ot those who draiiK them to any extent. America teas drilling nearer and nearer to becoming a whisky-drinking nation under .Prohibition.

Mr Andrew Fnrnseth (president of the International Seamens 1 nioni, who has followed the sea tor hliy years, Said he and oilier sailors wanted ‘■(.■lean, wholesome beer ot the kind my mother used to make.” Mr James O'Connely, a Labor lender, said that the, old-fashioned saloon was still operating in New Voce with a free lunch. “Yon (annul regulate drinking or females smoking cigarettes any more than you can fly.”— A. and N.Z. Cable.

CANADA’S EXPERIMENTS

DISASTROUS RESULTS

WASHINGTON, April in. Sir William Stavort, ex-eliainnan of

■ the Quebec: Liquor {'ontmCsion, and ; Mr Frnssel, president of flu; Manitoba Moderntion League, testified before the Senate Committee that Prohibition bad been tried in one Canadian province after another, with such disastrous results that the resentment of the people bad forced the repeal of the dry laws and the enactment of the Covernmcni distribution of liquor, which hail remedied the unspeakable conditions of the <. f ] ry » regime l . Sir William Stavert said that semiProhibition bad been tried in Quebec, and even that had been found too drnsfie. He pointed out that under Prohibition young people were corrupted, the psychopathic wards were tilled owing to the vile stuff drunk, and crime

increased. Mr John Bnllivnn, president of the New York State Federation oi Labor, testified that (he improvement in the higher standards nf life and work and Ihe greater reward tor services rendered were not due to the \ nlstcad Law, hut in spite of it. Organised Labor had ever been engaged in promoling temperate drinking in _ that diiection until the enactment nt the Volstead T.aw. Millions of homes, in the majority of which liquor was never seen, had now been turned into breweries, prohahlv distilleries. The “dry” witnesses will probably appenr before the comnißtfm beginning on ’Monday.—A. and N.Z. Cahle.