LABOUR AND PROHIBITION.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVIII, Issue 1060, 30 June 1910, Page 21

LABOUR AND PROHIBITION.

Further testimony is to hand that in the United States organised labour

will have none Of; prohibition. Here is the opinion Of the Kentucky State Federation of Labour:— “Whereas, the prohibition movement of local option has dealt a death blow to many of the labour organisations of the State of Kentucky, and thereby depriving the hotel and restaurant employee and bartenders’ craft of a livelihood; “Resolved: That the Kentucky State Federation of Labour is; not in accord with any movement of well-meaning but misguided people to prohibit the sale of liquors; that we favor a strict, sane, and safe regulation of the traffic.” Labour ought to know in Kentucky, If anywhere, the strength and the: weakness of prohibition. That makes their pronouncement significant.