The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-05-21
Organized Labor and Prohibition
BY JOSEPH PROEBSTLE
ADDRESS BEFORE THE LABOR EDITORS CON-
vENTION, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, MAY 10, 1915.


public political questions agtatng the
he people a Nation.
The Labor Press piece Organized Labor, there
Labor rights before
general public the advance for
rights and privileges of the oers
the tolers see danger signal
Investigations of the Industrial Commission disclosed
astonishing brutality cunning and cupdy the part of the
Captains that Labor than justified to view every
proposition coming before the people supported AID advocated by
these Captains suspicion and dsrus
last few big corporation in America advocated
financially supported Prohibition for their employees Through
this the Movement mas made suc ap
gains life and existence of large and
heretofore powerful Labor Organizations the
Bartenders Employees the Brewery Workers.
the Blowers Coopers and others and materially
other Trades Organizations including the Print
ing and Building Trades.
This financial support Big Industries of
country developed special professional Prohibition Agator who
turned by Colleges and Universities qualified
formerly the pulpit but finds better paid
interesting employment in preaching Prohibition to the
working class.
phase these Agitators always hammer
Prohibition Movement purely moral question
They play upon they
remarkably well binding the people and hiding
their real motives
If the Big Interests this country nothing
question the Prohibition Movement they would
stop supporting but the capitalist above all economic
question this what working
man must be taught o and to understand
merely of the people who support the Pro
hbon financially destroy the Brewery Workers.
tenders Cigar directly depend
ard possible destroy all organized efforts of
trade calling.
Many employers regard alcoholic drinks
far as their EMPLOYEES luxury they
purely economic They deny good
things they endeavor their employees from
oyng glass wine They that th
spent times mu
liant squandeed and would far better remain in their the
poyers'. pockets
To gain they upon financing of the Prohb
good investment which in time will ssul
bring good returns
The claim the workngman by ndugng in
occasional drink utilize part his heretofore the
saloon purposes hypocrisy The real object deprive
worngman that of his which the employers wrongly
claim spent fooishy saloon
localities which voted dry at the behs influence
followed
mediately.
1t each which prohibition
established Organizations directly involved
peey wiped and the ether organizations of Labor greatly
decimated and have recovered
In West Virginia. Alabama
depressing that the
find themselves facing bankruptcy.
Labor which formerly employed directly and indirectly in
saloons working with their employers providing
workngday and for from 90
per finds itself in organized chaotic scramble for
any price, number c hours depressing affect
Ing the wages ali trades in their fight
This is what Big Corporations supporting Prohibition
Movement accomplish They
Trades by other The overcrowdng
disruption of the militant Labor Oganiza-
the social
price paying the
bition Agitator.
The English seriously contemplated recently
pv English workers of the right enjoy they
pleased tried the working OF England
found that fasehood
England induced sell their liberty attempt
working
danger point of sweeping the Government off Of its
Impartial unbiased American Journalists nvesiga
and the made by the Big
workers of their liberty will
be hoped that the Labor Press of America will give this
port he publicity
is for Captains
spend their the of the Prohibition
they able keep of
agtated the Prohibition Question: the whole
their voices protest against their stealing of natural
Public Utilities and the milking of public through
watering of stock
All this and facts connected with the Prohibition
Movement should be told the working class America
danger which