OVERCOMING UNEMPLOYMENT
Every effort is being made at the present time to turn I lie tide of unemployment and get mon and youths back into regular work at real wages. Those who advocate prohibition overlook the disastrous consequences that would follow if the- licensed trade were abolished. There are at least 20.000 wage earners engaged in the licensed and allied trades who would lose their jobs. The claim that they would he employed in oiher industries is obviously untrue in view of the surplus of skilled workers in all trades already among the unemployed. Increased hardship and increased taxation are two of the many items in prohibition’s bill of costs—two of the many reasons why every country that has had prohibition has thrown it out. On Polling Day remember that 20.000 jobs depend on you. Vote Continuance by striking out the two bottom lines. 12
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 November 1935, Page 5
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