THOUSANDS DEMAND BEER

Taranaki Daily News, 16 May 1932, Page 7

THOUSANDS DEMAND BEER

BIG PARADE IN NEW YORK MILLION LINE THE STREETS DEMAND FOR LIQUOR VOTE MAYOR LEADS PROCESSION By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 7.30 p.m. New York, May 14. Over 25,000 persons, headed by the Mayor, Mr. A. Walker, marched in a parade which lasted 12 hours, bearing placards, ‘‘We want beer!” and recounting the benefits to the nation’s finance, both private and public, that would be derived from a return to liquor. Five hundred million dollars in. annual revenue in Federal excise tax alone would accrue. Many organised groups of the city’s life, including the Tammany Society, participated. It is estimated that 1,000,000 persons lined the streets in which the paradets marched.

(Significance is attached to two developments in the prohibition situation, stated a cable received on April 16. The Missouri Republican convention has asked for the re-submission of the Eighteenth Amendment to State constitutional conventions, a request that has been approved by Mr. A. M. Hyde, Missouri (Secretary of Agriculture),one of the leading “dry” exponents in Cabinet.

The second development is the announcement of plans for nation-wide “beer parades,” suggested by the Mayor of New York (Mr. Walker) for May 14. Heads of cities and national groups of various sorts, including the American

Federation of Labour, have accepted the proposal. Mr. Hyde’s move is expected to presage a similar programme in the national Republican Party’s platform. Mr. Hyde explains that he has not changed his views but believes the “people’s right” should be heard.