Ford Motor Works

Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 294, 18 October 1922, Page 3

Ford Motor Works

KMOKCINU THE LIQUOR LAWS.

THOUSANDS OF WORKERS

DISMISSED. NEW YORK, Sept. 11. Mr. Henry Forcl lias issued orders to 70,000 workmen employed in Ills automobile Avorlis :at Detroit, forbidding them to use any intoxicating liquors, on pain of dismissal. "It will cost a man his job without excuse or appeal to have tho odour of . beer, wine, or any intoxicating liquor on his breath, or to have any of these intoxicants on his person, or in his home." NEW YORK, Sept. 11. Eighteen thousand men in one of Ford's plants, "at Detroit, have been laid off, and nearly 100,000 were instructed .to turn in their tools to-night for an indefinite suspension. • —N.Z. Newspapers, Sept. 18. These cables show how Prohibition Is working—after- three years—in America. Here is a law —Prohibition which ai'ter three years has to depend for its enforcement upon ■ threats of tli© "sack" from private employers! Wiiy? Simply because, wharevei' It has been tried, it has been proved that Prohibition doe* not. prohibit! Vote