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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18676, 4 October 1922, Page 7

UNEMPLOYED IN U.S.A LABOUR'S COMPLAINT 'llio Executive Council of the American Federation of Labour lias issued an address (o the American people, calling upon all members of the federation and other citizens to demand of their Senators and Congressmen that the Volstead Act bo ji mended, says the New York Times Current History. It declared that its investigations had shown that there had been: 1. A general disregard of the law among all classes of people, including those who made the law. 2. Creation of thousands of moonshiners in both country and city. 2. The creation of an army of bootleggers. 4. An amazing increase in the traffic in poisons and deadly concoctions and drugs. 5. An increased rate of insanity, blindness, and crime among the, users of these concoctions and drugs. 6. Increase in unemployment due to loss of employment by workers in 45 industries directly or indirectly connected with the manufacture of liquors. 7. Increase in taxes to citv, State, and national Governments amounting to approximately 1,030,000,000 dollars a year. The American Federation of Labour rcnrdsents four and a-half million workers, who have tested Prohibition and found it wanting. Vote Continuance I—Advl.