BAD TRADE AND UNEMPLOYMENT.

White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 370, 18 April 1926, Page 12

BAD TRADE AND UNEMPLOYMENT.

Very little money spent in liquor finds its way into the pockets of the wage earners. You will see this by the following table taken from a Government Return: D’ £IOO is spent in—(a) Coal-mining, £55 goes to the worker. (b) Shipbuilding, £4O goes to tinworker. (c) Railways, £3l goes to the worker. (d) Cotton Goods, £27 goes to the worker. (e) Clothing, £22 goes to the worker. But if £IOO is spent in STRONG DRINK, ONLY £7 10s. goes to tin worker.

Mr John Burns, M.P., tells us that in a wellknown distillery £IOO,OOO is distributed in w r ages amongst 2000 men. If this distillery employed as many men to do its w r ork in proportion as a railway, 7142 men w’ould be working and earning £350, 000, or 3A times the wages paid by the distillery.

Teetotalism means more wages. If the money were spent in useful articles instead of in Liquor, trade would flourish and employment would be more plentiful. “If tinmoney now spent in Drink could be turned into other trades all the industries of the land would flourish,” so said Lord Randolph Churchill.