The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-18
$500 MEN DE-
PRIYED OF WORK
IF INITIATIVE BILL NO. 3 BE
COMES A LAW-NOT A PRO
HIBITION MEASURE-WILL
DRIVE INDUSTRIES FROM
STATE.

DRIVE INDUSTRIES FROM
STATE.
| The executive board of the Labor
AUTHORIZATION League, an organiZa-
tion of unionsts in the liquor trades
| to oppose the so-called prohibition
measure which is to be voted on in
November waited upon the executive
board of the Washington State FEEDER
alton of Labor in session in Seattle
last Sunday with a request for en-
dorsement of their fight against the
measure. Every phase of the question
was considered at length and the fol
| lowing resolution endorsed without a
dissenting vote. We commend it's
careful reading by the trade unionists
of this state:
Whereas, there will be submitted
to the voters of the state of Washing
ton at the November election an act
! known as initiative measure No. 8,
which act is miscalled a prohibition
measure; and
Whereas, said initiative measure
No. is not a temperance measure
and involves no issue or morals or
temperance, for by its terms it pro-
vides that by the mere payment of a
twenty-five cent fee any man or wom-
an can secure a permit and have
shipped to him or her from without
the state of Washington one-half gal
Ion of whisky or twelve quarts or
twenty-four pints of beer every twenty
days, an amount of liquor equal to
double the per capita consumption in
the United States, and which liquor
may be shipped into the home or else
where, and which act, while permit
ting the shipment as aforesaid from
without the state of Washington, pro-
hibits the manufacture or sale of in
toXicating liquors within the state of
Washington, thereby depriving $500
men of the state of Washington of EN-.
ployment; and
Whereas, organized labor has al
ways stood together; and
Whereas, the brewery workers,
drivers, bottlers, engineers, bartend-
ers, coopers, ice-men, cigar makers.
yard-men, federal laborers and culin-
airy crafts, as organizations and as in
dividuals, have always aided other
unions in time of stress and have al
ways been a part of organized labor,
both within the state of Washington
and in the United States; and
"Whereas, said act would put $500
members of the aforesaid labor unions
out of employment and would thereby
weaken organized labor to that extent;
and
Whereas, nothing is offered or can
be offered to take the place of the en-
ployment by which this vast army now
earns a living for themselves and fam
lilies: and
Whereas, the state of Washington
today has a good and sufficient local
option law, by which the majority of
the people in any given community
can regulate the liquor question ac-
cording to the wishes of that major
ity; therefore, be it
Resolved, by the executive board of
the State Federation of Labor of the
State of Washington, that said meas
ure is an act of unjust legislation
against organized labor of the state
of Washington, and we do hereby ad-
wise and request the various organiza-
tions affiliated with the Washington
State Federation of Labor to do all in
their power to oppose and defeat in
itiative measure No. 8, and do advise
and request its members that they
vote against the act.