The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-06-05

the buckingham if that part Of his
wagessss which the employers wrongly
claim u.s. now spent uselessly and
foolishly IN the saloon, and to keep
it for themselves in order to increase
their profits. We have hundreds or
examples in localities which. voted
dry at the behest and influence OF
big corporations and employers that
reductions of wages followed imme-
diately.
1t has been demonstrated In each
state in which prohibition has, been
established that the labor organiza-
tons directly involved were COM
pletely wiped out, and the other or
CARNATIONS of labor were greatly
decimated and have never recovered.
. In West Virginia, Tennessee and
Alabama prohibition had such a de-
pressing effect on all other business,
that the towns and cities, and even
the states, find themselves facing
bankruptcy.
Labor, which was formerly en-
ployed directly and indirectly. In
breweries and Saloons working un-
der agreements with their employers,
providing for an eight-hour working
day and for wages ranging from
SIS to $50 per week and more, finds
itself in an unorganized chaotic
scramble for work at any price, and
at any number of hours-depressing
and affecting the wages in all trades
in their fight for an; existence s1'
- HSIs{~ III - T.
!; supporting the prohibition movement,
want to accomplish. They have been
unable to defeat the trades union
movement by any other means. The
oVercroWding of the labor market.
the disruption of the many militant
labor organizations and the suppress
sion of the workingmen'st social
gathering place is worth the price
they are paying at present for the
professional prohibition agitator.
The English government seriously
contemplated recently to deprive the
English workers of the right to en-
JOY themselves as they pleased and
tried to put on the working class of
England the stigma of drunken de-
generacy, but found that by such
falsehood the workers of England
could not be induced to sell their
liberty and the attempt had to be
abandoned before the indignation OF
the working class reached the dan
ger point Of sweeping the govern
ment off it's feet.
Are, They Unbiased?
Impartial and unbiased American
Journalists are now investigating the
conditions and the attempts made by
the big interests of England to de-
prive the workers of their liberty and
will soon make a report. II Is to be
hoped that the labor press Of Amer
lea will give this report the widest
publicity. 49,.
&c., Liquor Not the Only Question.
There is one more important rea-
son for the captains of industries to
spend their money in the support of
the prohibition movement, and that
is, as long as they are able to keep
the minds of the masses agitated on
the prohibition question, the people
| as a whole will not raise their voices
in protest against: their stealing OF
natural resources, the public, utilities,
and the milking of the public through
the wholesale watering Of stock
All this, and many more facts con-
nected with the prohibition move
.ment, should be told to the working
class of America, In order TO make
it. see the economic danger which Is
lurking behind the mask of these
| moral 90 captains, of 4 industries,
whose sole purpose is to enslave the
workers and deprive them of their