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Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 15976, 19 November 1919, Page 9

Prohibition in America Promotes Industrial Unrest, Strikes and Lock-outs everywhere. “Washington, August 26.—A million and a half of workers in the United States have struck. Strikes and lock-outs are costing the country one hundred millions sterling a day.” MR. SAMUEL GOMPERS, the Federation Labour Leader, has declared that prohibition is the worst enemy to industrial peace. If yon want to avoid the evils of prohibition, if you would maintain industrial peace in this Dominion, you will strike out the bottom lines, two and three, on your voting paper. A Further Indictment of Prohibition BREEDING- CLASS HATRED.. '(“ The Times,” Saturday July sth, 1919) NEW YORK, July & Mr Samuel Gompers, Bresident of the American Federation of Labour, has submitted to the Judiciary Committee of the Senate a report on the industrial conditions of America as affected by Prohibition. Mr Gompers declares that the result of depriving the working man of his beer has been to promote discontent, which is expressing itself in the phenomenal growth of revolutionary organisations. “Prohibition,” Mr Gompers adds, “is the .champion breeder of class hatred.” Detroit, the capital of Michigan, says Mr Gompers, has under prohibition 5,000 “blind pigs” and as many “boot loggers.” More whisky is drunk than ever, but it costs 50/- a quart, and 2/6 a drink. The introduction of Prohibition .has been a tremendous stimulus to “revolutionary Socialism of a peculiarly virulent and ferocious character.” WHAT ARE YOU TO DO? Avoid everything that would bree d class hatred. Avoid everything that [would prompt industrial discontent. Yon can best do this by voting / NATIONAL CONTINUANCE. VOTE THUS PROFESSOR STEPHEN LEACOCK A DISTINGUISHED LITERATEUB After speaking of the evils of prohibition in U.S.A. and Canada, Prof. S, Leacock, Professor of Political Economy at McGill University, Montreal, writing in the ‘‘National Review, ’’ says: — “While there is yet time the danger of prohibition should be averted. The prohibition propaganda in U.B.A. and Canada was backed by unlimited money, and engineered by organised hypocrisy.” Professor Leacock concludes:— “ It is well for the British people to be warned. If th ey do not strangle in its cradle the snake o fprohibition, then the country will be given over in due time to the regime of the fanatic, the informant, and the tyrant.” YOU WILL AVOID THE EVILS, THE INIQUITIES, THE HYPOCRISY AND UNPATEIOTISM OF PROHIBITION BY VOTING PROHBIITION MEANS RUIN TO 12,000 FAMILIES IN NEW ZEALAND.' PROHIBITION MEANS INDUSTRIAL DISASTER. PROHIBITION MEANS THE LOSS OF £1,500,000 IN REVENUE. You cannot afford to bring ruin to thousands, to promote industrial disaster, and throw away £1,500,000, equal to interest at 5 per cent, per annum on £30,000,000. AVOID THE RUIN AND DISASTER that Prohibition would bring upon New Zea- ~ * land by voting for NATIONAL CONTINUANCE. STRIKE OUT THE TWO BOTTOM LINES, (1) I VOTE EOE NATIONAL CONTINUANCE. Tn/"\T* JL’ V/JUU am a mxn kJ JL. JL JLU "DITT) niT A JL \J JLV VJ JLJL JOI.KJ JUJ A Atttv -LJ’ nriltTmTv r-\rvr W/ll liivu, TTJT/'VT'fc JL' W JL«J AT A rpTAAT A X X X -i-JL JL JL VJ r J- V XfeX* ATTIDimi/A AT X XLVIXXX/XXXXJXX < STRIKE OUT THE TWO BOTTOM LINES.

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